On Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 09:14:32 -0400, John Peacock wrote: > Historically, I have seen this behavior if the time between steps 4 and > 5 was significant (for some value of significant). What was happening > was that the sending MTA would timeout before the receiving MTA would > send the 250.
That would make sense, and didn't occur to me. But I think I can rule it out in this case. > However, I've never seen an instance like you describe > where the sending MTA would reuse the connection in that case. Do you > have log entries with timestamps? I have only a summery of the logfiles which I put together to reply to a complaint a customer submitted to me. So I'm afraid not, but I'll keep an eye out for it happening again and see if I can track it down. Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/
