On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The logs show an immediate "connection refused" gotten by exim. But then
> exim hangs on for some reason for a long time (Linux 2.0.27) until it
> gets a timeout. Could it be made configurable that a connection refused
> immediately results in abandoning delivery attempts in favor of the
> fallback host?
That is what is supposed to happen. It is not supposed to hang around.
When I am fully back at work (just popped in to check on mail today) I
will test that this is the case on my system (Solaris 2) and also look
at the code to see if I can track this problem down.
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