Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:09:06 +0100 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail: operation timed out Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20020617140906.01179048@aph2k>
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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.
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