Sendmail timeouts

[Chris Bennett]

OK Thanks
That reply was very clear to me! I'll just keep synproxy removed for 
now, but now I know what to do if I decide to put it back.
Chris

Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of April 15, 2008 6:15:54 AM -0500, Chris Bennett is alleged to have 
> said:
>
>   
>> synproxy state was causing problem.
>> I changed both to keep state
>> and now works fine.
>> Why does synproxy state cause mail failures?
>>     
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> It was causing timeouts.  Synproxy works by noting the request for a 
> connection, doing the connection setup itself, and _then_ replying to the 
> request.  So that initial reply will take a while to get back.
>
> Basically it slows down initial connection setup slightly, to do what it is 
> meant to do.  Sendmail was noticing this, and not getting a full reply in 
> the amount of time it was expecting.  Either removing the synproxy (like 
> you've done) or increasing the time before Sendmail times out (I assume it 
> can do that, it can do everything else...) would solve the problem.
>
> Daniel T. Staal
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