I'm trying to deliver email to some sites that seem to have obnoxiously long greet pause configured (yes, it's a Chinese site, and yes, it's their contact address for reporting abuse... guess they aren't about to make it easy to do): # date ; sendmail -q -v ; date Tue Feb 20 12:41:19 MST 2007 Running /var/spool/mqueue/l1J1BZTd015129 (sequence 1 of 4) <anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Connecting to ns.chinanet.cn.net. via esmtp...<anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Deferred: Connection timed out with ns.chinanet.cn.net. Running /var/spool/mqueue/l1HKVCiu004463 (sequence 2 of 4) <anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Deferred: Connection timed out with ns.chinanet.cn.net. Running /var/spool/mqueue/l1HKWqcD004481 (sequence 3 of 4) <anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Deferred: Connection timed out with ns.chinanet.cn.net. Running /var/spool/mqueue/l1GKJkvD011374 (sequence 4 of 4) <anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Deferred: Connection timed out with ns.chinanet.cn.net. Tue Feb 20 12:44:29 MST 2007 # I've tried bumping the connect timeout: define(`confTO_CONNECT', `5m')dnl (which results in "O Timeout.connect=5m")... as well as running sendmail as: sendmail -q -v -O Timeout.connect=5m -O Timeout.initial=5m but this doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks like the kernel's internal maximum timeout on a connect() is forcing a shorter interval. Anyone know what the workaround for this is? Do I need to force the kernel's TCP connect() timeout to something larger? Thanks, -Philip
