Re: [EXIM] Mail to Iridium.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Friso Kuipers
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Mail to Iridium.
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Friso Kuipers wrote:

> Exim seems to have problems sending mail to the 'iridium.com' domain.
> This concerns addresses for satelite pagers with 12 digits local_parts
> like:
>
>    123456789123@???

>
> Sometimes it takes Exim about a minute to process only one such e-mail
> and relay it to my ISP's mailhost, sometimes it even gets stuck in the
> queue. The log shows:
>
>    mailhost: connection refused

>
> Doing exim -v -qf gets rid of the mail without any complains of the
> mailhost.
>
> Does the all digit local_part confuse Exim? I use Exim 2.12 on Linux
> 2.0.36, no filtering of any kind.


I very much doubt that this is an Exim problem. There are plenty of
sites using all-digit local parts. And -qf runs exactly the same
delivery code in Exim as a "first time" delivery, so it wouldn't be
behaving any different.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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