I remember seeing something like this a few years ago with smail when it
was set to a shorter timeout. It used to be a "feature" of sendmail that
it would hold open an smtp connection after delivering mail to a site,
just in case there was more mail to be sent later (or that's the
rationale I heard for it) I haven't seen this in quite a long time so
I'm guessing that that feature was disabled by default or removed. Maybe
Netscape adopted that feature for their own mailer, (assuming they use
their own mailer) or are running an older version of sendmail.
On Tue, Nov 11/97, Evan Leibovitch <evan@???> wrote:
>
> I am noticing occasional, but repeating, entries in my log such as:
>
> 1997-11-11 11:38:22 SMTP incoming data timeout (message abandoned) while
> connected to h-205-217-237-89.netscape.com [205.217.237.89]
>
> There are about three other specific sites that are the source of such
> messages. Some are sites I recognize as would-be spammers but the others
> I'm not sure about. (Unwitting relays?)
>
> All mail that I expect (including the exim-list mail) is received fine.
> Any suggestions?
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