smtp_connect_timeout = 15s

Thanks Wietse

-----Original Message-----
From: Wietse Venema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 21 November 2008 10:28 AM
To: Rob Kelledy
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Connection timeout

Rob Kelledy:
> Hi,
> I'm getting timeouts to a particular domain. When testing the
> receiving server manually (telnet) I noticed?there is a long delay
> between the connection starting and the 220 Ready message and if
> anything is transmitted during that time the connection is
> terminated. I'm guessing this is some kind of anti-spam messure.
> Is there a way to get postfix to support this?

Postfix already supports this.

As required by the Internet SMTP protocol, Postfix does not send
anything until it receives the 220 Ready message.

However, if the server takes too long to send 220 Ready, then the
Postfix SMTP client will time out as specified with smtp_connect_timeout
in main.cf.

        Wietse

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