[comp.mail.sendmail] why does sendmail not timeout?

phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (10/26/89)

I am curious if anyone is aware of, or knows why, sendmail just stops and
hangs when it is receiving mail via an incoming SMTP connection that is to
be routed to some other outgoing host (such as via source routing) when
the domain server for that host cannot be reached?  I would think it would
be appropriate to just queue the mail after some period of timeout.  There
appear to be no timeout mechanism.

Can someone explain this?

--Phil Howard, KA9WGN--
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