Search Again: Re: Communicator and the 40sec send delay From: LiangTyan Fui Date: Friday, June 9, 2000 Time: 9:35:30 pm The problem can be due to SIMS that you are using. SIMS tends to perform a reverse lookup on sender email -on the STMP session. On 9/6/00 8:48 PM, Heath wrote: > After discovering the fix, I'm hoping that somebody here can explain > why this is happening. > > Running SIMS 1.8b7 mailserver software (outside my Firewall), CISCO > Firewall, client machine running Netscape Communicator (v4.7 or > various) behind the firewall, at this point let me leave out QuickDNS > and simply use the ISP's DNS (also outside the firewall). > > The problem is a simple one, in the preferences for Net Comm 4.7, if > the email address is set to <user>@deepend.co.uk then it used to take > 43 seconds to send an email. If you set the email address to > <user>@mailhost.deepend.co.uk and the Reply-to-address to > <user>@deepend.co.uk it would send instantly. > > It happens ONLY with Netscape on the Mac or PC... > > In the last 48 hours I discovered that if I got my ISP to add an A > record for deepend.co.uk, to equal the resolved address > 195.92.122.194 (my mailhost) then the problem goes away......I've > also done it with one other domain I manage mail for, so this > additional A record solves the problem. > > What I want to know is why am I having to add this A record to every > domain I manage mail for? > and by running Quick DNS locally (behind my firewall) how do I add > these A records that my ISP has been adding (cause it obviously > solves the problem). > > I did give it a try yesterday, but being a newbie everything's a blur :) > > TIA >

Messages In This Thread: Communicator and the 40sec send delay by Heath on Jun 9, 2000 at 5:49:37 am Re: Communicator and the 40sec send delay by LiangTyan Fui on Jun 9, 2000 at 9:35:30 pm Re: Communicator and the 40sec send delay by Men & Mice Support on Jun 10, 2000 at 12:57:45 pm Re: Communicator and the 40sec send delay by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 10, 2000 at 2:50:21 pm