Help!
Our mail-system will not send email to a machine in Russia! Forcing delivery
of one of the stuck emails via results in:
/usr/lib/exim/bin/exim -v -M 0zK2NU-0003x8-00
delivering message 0zK2NU-0003x8-00
Connecting to mail.cardio.ru [195.218.160.1] ... connected
SMTP<< 220 mail.cardio.ru ESMTP
SMTP>> EHLO mercury.ukc.ac.uk
SMTP<< 250-mail.cardio.ru
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<D.M.Chapman@???>
SMTP<< 250 ok
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<hjhjjhjhjhj@???>
SMTP<< 250 ok
SMTP>> DATA
SMTP<< 354 go ahead
SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
LOG: 0 MAIN
SMTP timeout while connected to mail.cardio.ru [195.218.160.1] after
end of data (2631 bytes written)
LOG: 0 MAIN
== hjhjjhjhjhj@??? T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed
out: SMTP timeout while connected to mail.cardio.ru [195.218.160.1]
after end of data (2631 bytes written)
If however I telnet to this machine I get:
mercury# telnet mail.cardio.ru 25
Trying 195.218.160.1...
Connected to mail.cardio.ru.
Escape character is '^]'.
EHLO mercury.ukc.ac.uk
220 mail.cardio.ru ESMTP
250-mail.cardio.ru
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
MAIL FROM:<D.M.Chapman@???>
250 ok
RCPT TO:<hjhjjhjhjhj@???>
250 ok
DATA
354 go ahead
Sent vi telnet
.
250 ok 906131397 qp 17658
It appears that Exim is waiting for a response of some sort from the remote
machine before timing out. Is this a problem with our machine config or is
it a problem their end? I notice that we have a few messages for other
machines that are stuck in a similar way...
However, running exim -d also works:
mercury# ./exim -d hjhjjhjhjhj@???
Exim version 2.02 debug level 1 uid=0 gid=1
probably ndbm
test
.
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= root@??? U=root P=local S=303
delivering message 0zK2oY-0004HH-00
Connecting to mail.cardio.ru [195.218.160.1] ... connected
SMTP<< 220 mail.cardio.ru ESMTP
SMTP>> EHLO mercury.ukc.ac.uk
SMTP<< 250-mail.cardio.ru
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<root@???>
SMTP<< 250 ok
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<hjhjjhjhjhj@???>
SMTP<< 250 ok
SMTP>> DATA
SMTP<< 354 go ahead
SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
SMTP<< 250 ok 906133710 qp 17919
SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: 0 MAIN
=> hjhjjhjhjhj@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mail.cardio.ru
[195.218.160.1]
LOG: 0 MAIN
Completed
mercury#
What am I missing here?? Help!
Darren
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