"Dennis Hansen" <news@DennisHansen.dk> writes:

> a customer with mdaemon has problems by sending messages to our server with
> qmail on it.
>
>> Waiting for socket connection...
>> Socket connection established (192.168.0.2 : 2181 -> .157.79 : 25)
>> Waiting for protocol initiation...
>> 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded.

The mdaemon site is only waiting 30 seconds for qmail-smtpd to start
talking after the connection is initiated. That's not very
long. However, your qmail-smtpd should start talking almost
immediately. See:

http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#smtp-slow

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Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
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