On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > What I believe is happening here is while the messages are attempting to be > sent, they timeout before completion (during the DATA command). > > At this point, I'd recommend that you increase the timeout of the outbound > SMTP server to allow for the completion of the messages. If the timeout is > set to 1 minute, increase it to 2 minutes. Increasing the timeout on the > SMTP server shold help avoid these errors by letting the data section > complete and not having to wait the retry time and you should see a > reduction in the amount of 451 errors that are generated." > > I've worked with Sendmail, and only have the faintest familiarity with > Postfix. I can't seem to find anything that suggests how to control > timeouts on outgoing messages. Any incoming messages to this server are > from other servers on campus, and there's never any problem receiving. > > Hopefully this is just an "add this line to main.cf" kind of thing. Any > Postfix experts out there?
Do a 'man 8 smtp' and search within the text for 'timeout'. There are quite a large number of timeouts you can tweak. The defaults all look massive to me, though. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
