Gregory Leblanc wrote: Mar 27 10:58:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: To gleblanc@cu-portland.edu: Mar 27 10:58:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / (110, 'Connection timed out') (deferred) Mar 27 10:58:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: Maybe your MTA daemon needs restarting?
Sendmail doesn't say that anything is wrong, and I can send mail from ordinary users. No, my MTA daemon doesn't need restarting, I tried that already. I've run out of things to look at.
This happened to me, although my problem was "Connection refused" rather than a timeout. We tuned sendmail.cf by increasing MaxDaemonChildren and ConnectionRateThrottle like so:
# maximum number of children we allow at one time
O MaxDaemonChildren=20
# maximum number of new connections per second
O ConnectionRateThrottle=10I'm guessing that if your connection times out, your server might be too loaded.
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