Arthur Titeica: > Hello. > > I am having some problems sending mail to one of the Bluehost servers > (box467.bluehost.com 74.220.219.67) > > Postfix logs that the conversation timed out while sending RCPT > TO and indeed it takes some time until the server > sends an OK after the RCPT TO (in a telnet session). > > The question on the Postfix side is: can I increase somehow this > timeout period?
Increase smtp_rcpt_timeout (default: 300s). > And for best results I would really like this to happen specifically > for this server. You may want to use a transport map for this. /etc/postfix/master.cf slow_rcpt unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_rcpt_timeout=1000s /etc/postfix/main.cf: transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport /etc/postfix/transport: # Specify the recipient's domain name, not the MTA hostname. bluehost.com slow_rcpt: Commands: # postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport # postfix reload Documentation: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_rcpt_timeout http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html http://www.postfix.org/master.5.html Wietse