Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:42:27 -0400:
Do you think it's wise to replace the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files from the snapshot (after backing them up, of course)?
If you did not change the files: no. As I said: go thru a manual send and check *where* the timeout occurs (better: repeat it a few times to be sure it's always in the same phase). The messages in the logs are not very clear about this. If your users have to authenticate before sending this could be a typical point-of-failure where after the reboot the authentication against an external mechanism is somehow hampered. I guess, you do have any spam protection on the machine as you said it's not taking external mail?
Kai
nothing but vanilla stuff here, for email. no milters, no spam protection...it's a tiny intranet (<20 users). We don't auth on sending at all...and that's what got me puzzled.
I will do as you suggested; I'll telnet from a client-host and do the same. Funny though, when ssh'd into the box, using pine works without hesitation, I guess because I'm already auth'd.
Thanks for your input. -Ray