[H-GEN] Mail problems.......

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Michael Anthon wrote:

> I am trying to set up Linux at home so that I can fiddle/learn with it. 
>  Having spent most of the last few years using Winbloze, I thought I would 
> try out a real OS and see if I could come up with an uses for it.

Good choice :-)  Coming to the meeting today?  Perhaps a tad far from
Cabulture :)

> The Situation

[filed]

> The Problem
> I am having trouble with the sending of mail.  I have tried several 
> configurations such as
> - M$ Outlook via ipmasq to my ISP
> - M$ Exchange via ipmasq to my ISP
> - Netscrape Mail via ipmasq to my ISP
> - M$ Outlook delivering to Sendmail on the DX4, then being forwarded to 
> where ever
> - Ditto with qmail.

So having tried 2 MTAs we could consider ruling that out as a possible
cause (although we can't 100% rule it out yet).
 
> The symptom is that the mail takes an enourmous amount of time to send.  A 

How is performance with ftp?

I suspect you will see problems with this, and that is won't be mail
alone.  If this is the case, I can offer a few suggestions as to possible
problems.  Shouldn't be too hard to fix at that point.

> suggestions as to what the problem is, or any suggestions as to any diag  
> nostics tests I can perform.  I am not even sure where the problem lies, 
> but given that it works fine via a direct connection from windows, then I 
> suspect a glitch/config problem in ip masquerading.

I don't think masq is at fault, but supply us with the ipfwadm commands
you are using anyway.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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