Re: [EXIM] SMTP timeouts?

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Evan Leibovitch
CC: Philip Hazel, Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] SMTP timeouts?

evan@??? said:
} Understood. What is being told to me is that there may be something
} that exim is sending (or not sending) that is causing this to happen.

} Someone who is trying to help me fix this is suggesting the
} possibility that exim may be too slow at performing some kind of
} lookup or verification, and that the other side is timing out because
} of this delay.

Its probably time to use telnet to the smtp port to diagnose.

A site we deal with was showing this problem. Their customised mailer
appeared to be doing spam control by dropping the connection after RCPT TO
is they didn't approve of the sender/recipient. No reply code was
given....

We have persuaded them to fix it, but other people may make the same
mistake.

    Nigel.
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