Wietse Venema:
> Rob Kelledy:
> > Hi,
> > I'm getting timeouts to a particular domain. When testing the
> > receiving server manually (telnet) I noticed?there is a long delay
> > between the connection starting and the 220 Ready message and if
> > anything is transmitted during that time the connection is
> > terminated. I'm guessing this is some kind of anti-spam messure.
> > Is there a way to get postfix to support this?
>
> Postfix already supports this.
>
> As required by the Internet SMTP protocol, Postfix does not send
> anything until it receives the 220 Ready message.
>
> However, if the server takes too long to send 220 Ready, then the
> Postfix SMTP client will time out as specified with smtp_connect_timeout
> in main.cf.
Correction: that is smtp_helo_timeout.
smtp_helo_timeout (default: 300s)
The SMTP client time limit for sending the HELO or EHLO command, and
for receiving the initial server response.
> Wietse
>
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