A couple of things could be at work here:
1) Your mail server is running identd and its taking 3 minutes timing out
trying to determine your identity.
2) The IP address you are connecting from is not in DNS properly, so you are
timing out with DNS trying to do a reverse DNS Lookup.
Matt Soffen
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irwan Hadi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 8:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Addition was Weird
>
> After waiting for long time, the SMTP banner then up again
> how this could be happened ?
> so when I telnet localhost 25, I must wait about 3 minutes to wait until
> the SMTP banner up. (qmail is ready)
> how to fix this
>
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> AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)
