Noel Jones wrote (on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:33:48PM -0500): > On 5/4/2010 2:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > >On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: > >>Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, > >>i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server > >>closed the connection. > > > >THIS IS NORMAL. As I said previously, type the MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and > >DATA commands, send a couple of ilnes, THEN wait and time the timeout. > > > >How about those logs showing a complete mail 'life cycle'? > > > >- C > > No, it's not normal. When you telnet to a postfix smtpd, > postfix will sit there patiently for $smtpd_timeout before it > disconnects if you don't type anything. > > The described behavior suggests smtpd_timeout is set for 4s, > but that parameter isn't in the postconf or master.cf shown to > the list. > > I don't think there's anything else we can do for the OP. > > -- Noel Jones
If the timeout is really set to 4s, can it be overriden in master.cf? Wouldn't that be a useful workaround, or at least a diagnostic? Thanks.
