From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 6: 6:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E45737B412 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.aphnet.co.uk ([62.49.140.130] helo=aph2k.aphinternal.aphnet.co.uk) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17JwD3-000OKL-0V for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:06:18 +0100 Received: from aph2k ([62.49.140.130]) by aph2k.aphinternal.aphnet.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:09:12 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020617140906.01179048@aph2k> X-Sender: rob@aph2k X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:09:06 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Rob O'Donnell Subject: sendmail: operation timed out Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jun 2002 13:09:12.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[2CE40FB0:01C21600] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I'm trying to set up a mail server, system is FreeBSD 4.5-release, sendmail 8.11.6. (pretty much default install - still on generic kernal) I'd been setting up some mail filtering, but taken that out again - it just hooks in by running sendmail daemon using a custom .cf file. internal mail between users is working fine; incoming external mail works fine, but outgoing mail just sits in the queue - mailq reports, eg: g5HB2HY00264 6 Mon Jun 17 12:02 aph (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx14.hotmail.com.) xxxxxxx@hotmail.com I can run mail to send a message and immediately mailq and get the above result, with not even a pause for it to actually look at something and timeout! /etc/resolv.cnof looks ok, indeed DNS lookups seem ok (after all, it's found the mx host!) and I can manually telnet to port 25 on the target mailserver from the fbsd box, so it's not a firewall issue. (got a hardware one external to this machine, nothing set up in software.) timeout settings in sendmail.cf all at default.. Can anyone give me any clues where I should look at fixing this?! Many thanks in advance, Rob. -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message