ChrisP.
  Speaking of which, Netwin may want to investigate and remove
  wl.trusted-forwarder.org from the recommended Surgemail settings as a
  whitelist. At least for me, it’s not responding to any of my DNS servers and
  was considerably slowing things down on Surgemail SMTP transactions until I
  removed it. 
   
  -Vinny 
   
  From: surgemail-support [mailto:surgemail-support@netwinsite.com] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:26 PM 
  To: surgemail-list@netwinsite.com 
  Subject: [SurgeMail List] re: Re: ORBS 
   
  Also if you look at the output in 
  tellmail status | grep hits 
   
  Near the top is a section of response times from rbl's 
   
  sbl.spamhaus.org. 132 hits, 0.0sec 
  bl.spamcop.net. 899 hits, 0.1sec 
  bad.rbl.entry. 0 hits, 10.9 sec <---------------- (example) 
  dnsbl.sorbs.net 7734 hits, 0.2sec 
  list.dnswl.org 27847 hits, 0.0sec 
   
  Look for any with a response time of about 10 seconds, that's a sure sign
  of a dead rbl that should be removed! 
   
  ChrisP 
  Hi Norma, 
   
  I had this kind of a problem and it was always problem with ORBS server.
  
  To fix the problem I removed problematic ORBS server from list of ORBS
  servers. 
  Search for ORBS server in mail.log with timeout. 
  Mostly the problem was solved a day after and then I entered that server
  on ORBS list. 
   
  I hope this will point you in good direction. 
   
  Regards, 
  DarkoBazulj 
   
  On 4/12/13 6:31 PM, Norma Sisler wrote: 
  Orbs connections are staying open and maxing out connections. Why is this
  happening? Below is an example of part of the log 
   
  124.6.177.10 53.6s 0.00 0 1 0k 0 Idle: RSET 
  119.147.50.14 53.7s 0.00 0 1 0k 7 Idle: RSET 
  71.185.66.19 53.8s 0.00 0 1 0k 0 Idle: RCPT TO:<detainmentncn9@iceweb
  
  209.104.37.159 53.9s 0.00 0 0 0k 54 Orbs 
  62.24.139.126 54.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 55 Welcomed 
  210.19.84.132 55.5s 0.00 0 0 0k 55 Orbs 
  66.161.134.166 57.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 58 Orbs 
  80.188.205.27 58.5s 0.00 0 0 0k 58 Orbs 
  210.188.250.43 58.9s 0.00 0 0 0k 59 Orbs 
  71.249.232.243 65.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 66 Orbs 
  151.1.208.74 67.5s 0.00 0 0 0k 67 Orbs 
  213.236.200.10 69.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 70 Orbs 
  195.47.193.8 70.9s 0.00 0 0 0k 71 Orbs 
  84.93.230.244 71.6s 0.00 0 1 0k 0 Idle: RSET 
  194.79.66.173 71.6s 0.00 0 0 0k 71 Orbs 
  216.34.240.163 82.2s 0.00 0 0 0k 82 Orbs 
  200.14.52.129 85.9s 0.00 0 0 0k 86 Orbs 
  211.40.221.202 86.9s 0.00 0 0 0k 87 Orbs 
  98.23.250.212 97.0s 0.00 0 0 0k 97 Orbs 
  62.193.232.10 101.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 102 Orbs 
  63.240.119.111 110.8s 0.00 0 0 0k 111 Orbs