fsockopen question (solved)

[Lou Hevly]

Greetings again:

I found the mistake, which as might have been foreseen was my own.  I 
gradually learned that the fsockopen failure was only on port 25, then 
that this delay also occurred when I telnetted to localhost 25, and 
finally it occurred to me to check the whole smtp chain.  I use a Perl 
script with qmail-qfilter to reject certain kinds of spam and had added 
a badly conceived loop that was causing this delay, but only for mail 
invoking SMTP locally, or I would have noticed it much earlier.

Sorry for the noise.

One nice thing about screwing up is that you sure can learn a lot 
trying to track down what went wrong ;-/.
-- 
All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
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