On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:09:02AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
[snip]
>
> But I'm curious why yahoo is consuming qmail-remotes. If connections
> to yahoo.com are timing out, the tcpto mechanism should keep
> qmail-remote from trying to connect. (See "man qmail-tcpto".) But if
> connections are succeeding, the messages should either be delivered or
> deferred. Either way, I don't see why large numbers of qmail-remotes
> would be trying to send to yahoo.com for extended periods.
Connections to yahoo.com are accepted, then dropped. qmail does not report
this as a time out, but a 'Connection dropped' [don't know the exact
wording right now].
So, qmail will keep trying to deliver.
We should ask yahoo to either fix their mailhubs or break them more
thoroughly :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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