From: Thibault <tj+usenet@...13.fr>
Date: 2009-01-27T02:18:53+09:00
Subject: Re: net-smtp timeout error

Hello,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:25:14 -0500, Daniel Berger wrote:
> I've got two RHEL3 boxes, alpha and beta. On the alpha box, the
> following script works fine. On the beta box I get a timeout error
> with the same script. What's happening?

  I think you did a check without your script like :

nc mailhost.foo.com 25
telnet mailhost.foo.com 25

  If not I suggest you do so in order to check if your problem really
comes from your script, or from a firewall, routing issue…

> I did validate that the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/protocols files were
> the same on both boxes.

  Maybe you could also check with tcpdump to see if packets are
sent/received as attended.

> This some sort of sendmail config issue? If so, any ideas what it
> might be?

  I don't think so, since you are using SMTP you're bypassing your local
MTA.