On Thursday 21 April 2011 17:03:26 Wietse Venema wrote: > 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).
Thanks for this. I couldn't find it on my own ;). Since the timeout is quite big by default I can't imagine it will solve anything if I increase it but I'll give a try. > > > 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 -- Arthur Titeica PharmEc Software
