Network strangeness only with incoming email

[Olivier Nicole]

> Only during _incoming_ email there are a lot of network errors/pauses,
> including 'tcp retransmission' errors.  This seems to cause sendmail

Do you receive your email straigh from internet, or do you receive
email from a gateway, say at your ISP?

If there is a mail server that is in charge of receiving all your
email before forwarding to you,the problem could lie between that
machine and yours.

Olivier