On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:01:58AM -0400, Kaleb Hosie wrote:
> I telnet'ed into the recipients server and started sending the series of
> commands to send mail and it seemed very quick up until I sent RCPT TO; it
> proceeded to hang there for 50 seconds before responding with a 250 SMTP
> code. I was able to get the email to send by increasing the timeout period
> to 60 seconds for "RCPT TO".
The minimum timeout for RCPT is 5 minutes according to RFC 5321. This
also matches the default postfix config. If you changed this value to
smaller values, you are on your own.
| $ /usr/sbin/postconf -d smtp_rcpt_timeout
| smtp_rcpt_timeout = 300s
Bastian
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