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> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] SMTP data timeout (message abandoned) on connection
> from...
>
>
> > LOG: 4 MAIN
> > SMTP data timeout (message abandoned) on connection from
> > www.designer.co.nz (dtlweb01.dtl.co.nz) [202.37.162.65]
>
> If setting smtp_receive_timeout = 20m doesn't fix this, the connection
> must be *very* slow indeed. You could try 1h...
i had it up to 40 minutes and it was still timing out. i shutdown exim and
changed our backup mail server back to sendmail and all the messages were
delivered. the hotmail message to me that hadn't been delivered for > 1 day
was delivered within 30 minutes of changing back to sendmail. admittedly the
machine running sendmail has a faster connection to the net, today i'll
change that machine back to exim and keep an eye on it. i'd be surprised
if 5 or 6 hosts (some of major hosts) had network speed problems for more
than 1 day (when looking at the debug log it seemed everything came in
at normal speed expect when it was waiting for DATA), our mail comes in on
a very lightly loaded leased line.
>
> I see a trickle of these all the time, sometimes from big sites (there's
> one from apple.com among the 10 or so today). I put it down to network
> glitches. This system is running with the default timeout setting.
do you know if they ever get delivered before they time out at the senders
end?
(the 5 day timeout?)
thanx for your help.
>
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