long delays when sending mail

2001-06-20 Thread James Melliar
Hi all I have a fairly standard Linux (Mandrake 8) server with Qmail on a LAN serving 10 Win 98 PCs. What is very odd is that when windows clients, using a mixture of outlook express & Outlook 2000, send mail the SMTP connection times out after 60 seconds. If the click the "wait" option the mail

Re: long delays when sending mail

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
"James Melliar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a fairly standard Linux (Mandrake 8) server with Qmail on a LAN >serving 10 Win 98 PCs. What is very odd is that when windows clients, using >a mixture of outlook express & Outlook 2000, send mail the SMTP connection >times out after 60 seconds.

Re: long delays when sending mail

2001-06-20 Thread Jon Booth
The Linux box needs to be able to do reverse lookups on the windows IP addresses. Trap for new players of which I am one. Jon