The following reply was made to PR bin/37226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/37226: Failure to send mail from cron when using STARTTLS client
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:07:49 -0400

 On Oct 26, 2007, at 22:05, Chris Ross wrote:
 >  On Oct 26, 2007, at 21:50, John Nemeth wrote:
 >>       This is setting a bunch of timeouts to "0".  I assume the
 >> idea is
 >>  to not have cron hang indefinitely if there are mail problems.
 >>  However, it probably takes a bit of time to do crypto processing.
 >> Try
 >>  changing the "-or0s" to "-or1m".  This should allow a considerable
 >>  ammount of time for processing without having cron hang forever.
 >
 >     Yup.  As you expected, this causes it to work.  Even trying the
 >  command-line test I was using with -or10s works alright for me,
 >  on my 450Mhz sparc64.
 
    It occurs to me that cron runs things once-a-minute, so using
 a minute as a timeout may be a bad idea.  I would recommend
 something in the 10-30 second range.  Anyway.  Thanks for your
 assistance.
 
                  - Chris