I've seen this as well, from only one particular site (a client of ours).
We've got a 256K Internet connection here (fairly lightly loaded) and they
have a full T-1 connection, but it still occurs quite frequently.
I will attempt to find out what MTA they're using; I believe it's the SMTP
gateway for cc:Mail, but I'm not positive.
Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> I am getting occasional messages of incoming SMTP attempts timing out.
> This is now a serious problem, someone who needs to be able to send email
> here, can't. Only two sites seem to have ever had this problem, everything
> else gets through.
>
> Here's the syntax of the (identical except for the time) log entries:
>
> 1998-02-25 12:03:12 SMTP incoming data timeout (message abandoned) while \
> connected to mailext02.compaq.com [207.18.199.33]
>
> An associate of mine on a different system (also using exim 1.82) who is
> getting CC'd on these messages is receiving the mail fine. The only
> significant diffrence between the two systems is that the other site has a
> faster Internet connection.
>
> Is there *anything* I can do about this?
>
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