From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 10:54:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56AD37B405 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B239044003 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0EItqAg005565; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:55:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E245121.3080708@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:04:17 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail: operation timed out... Why? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have mail stacking up in the outbound mail queue all with the same error: > > "Deferred: Operation timed out with " > > I have gone through my configs and everything looks correct. Could some one > tell me what could cause this error as I have checked everything I can think > of. May not be your fault. Is it only one server that's timing out, or is no mail getting through? If it's only one ISP, then perhaps that ISP is having a problem. How long has this been going on? Has mail ever sent successfully? Someone else suggested using telnet to test the connection, that's a good place to start diagnosing. Read the RFC on SMTP, as you can use telnet to actually send email, and sometimes you'll get more useful error messages back from the receiving server that way. > The only thing left that might be incorrect is my ISP has a reverse DNS > entry for my server as xxx.com not servername.xxx.com... Could that be it? If the remote server is conigured to be very strict in its DNS checks, yes. If xxx.com doesn't forward resolve (for example) the FreeBSD mail servers will reject your mail. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message