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From: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net>
To: "Steve Warwick" <ukla@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: operation timed out... Why?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:32:14 -0500
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Can you telnet to the remote server on port 25?

--Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Warwick" <ukla@attbi.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: Mail: operation timed out... Why?


> Hi All,
>
> I have mail stacking up in the outbound mail queue all with the same
error:
>
> "Deferred: Operation timed out with <isp name here>"
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Steve
>
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