From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 18:31:42 2003 Return-Path: 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 DB56A37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C02D143F3F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049164301.97ce24@mired.org) Received: (qmail 61917 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2003 02:31:41 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 27 Mar 2003 02:31:41 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16002.25228.323691.712308@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:31:40 -0600 To: "Karl Hammerschmidt" In-Reply-To: <000501c2f3f7$9642ff40$0200a8c0@dellfromhell> References: <000501c2f3f7$9642ff40$0200a8c0@dellfromhell> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.9 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:31:43 -0000 In <000501c2f3f7$9642ff40$0200a8c0@dellfromhell>, Karl Hammerschmidt typed: > Sendmail times out when mailing to addresses outside my ISP. > > /var/log/maillog shows the mail received by localhost and then it times out > sending to the domain of the recipient. It keeps trying to send > intermittently. It goes fine if I send to an address that's hosted at my > ISP. > > How could I diagnose the problem? I'd try telnetting to port 25 on one of the domains that is failing. I'd expect it to fail, as it smells like your ISP is blocking port 25 at the perimeter. The workaround is to route mail through your ISPs smtp server. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.