From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:34:12 -0500 From: Aaron Griffin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 and gmail In-Reply-To: <60fc1015964f7bff28151e8c7509b6a3@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <60fc1015964f7bff28151e8c7509b6a3@proxima.alt.za> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0236cc4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 10/26/05, Lucio De Re wrote: > > we use plan 9 as our main mail transfer agent. > > i've noticed that gmail has problems connecting > > to use. people sending messages to us get > > connection timed out errors. gmail keeps trying > > and in most cases the mail gets thru. anyone > > else seeing this? are we the only ones using this as > > the primary emailer? i think 1127 gets their mail > > from the main bell labs mailer. > > Have you looked at /sys/log/smtpd.mx? Maybe there is some matching > info to help you identify the hold up. This beast occasionally > saturates, but it's usually because I trigger a mail flood. I'll admit I don't know the details of everything, but this page ( http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#gmailTips ) contains info about what gmail does differently. I don't know if it will help, but it might. - Aaron