Kai Schaetzl wrote: > so, it's a connection to itself. was this a test to localhost? > If not, that hints in the direction of the problem. > Maybe you accidentally set the smarthost to itself or so? > I'd try a manual connect and walk thru an SMTP conversation and send a mail. > Also, clients can produce debug log files, too, even Microsoft products .... > > Kai > > Hi Kai, Thanks for your reply. Yes, that one was a connection to itself...but the msg remains when connecting from a client. My last post must have crossed with yours. It now appears to be nothing more than a server timeout issue which is very strange as this server's load averages are /always/ < .10. I'm not sure what might have changed since the reboot on Sunday morning....am now looking at what is or is not running against the snapshot taken on Friday night. Do you think it's wise to replace the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files from the snapshot (after backing them up, of course)? -Ray