In response to Philip Hazel:
> > I am running exim-1.82 on a system here. When ever exim restarts (via a
> > TERM then manualy re-starting) it will take up to 3-5 minutes to start
> > responding on the SMTP port. During this time the process can be killed
> > but wont respond to anything else. This even happens when there are no
> > messages in the queue.
>
> This sounds as if something is hanging onto port 25 and not releasing
> it. Are there any relevant entries in Exim's log? It should right
> something there if it is waiting and retrying getting hold of port 25.
One place to look is inetd.conf in case for any reason an SMTP stream
is configured there (I found out about the "the hard way" 8-).
Gyan.
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