Author: Daniel Buchholz Date: To: exim-users Subject: AW: [Exim] DNS lookup or something?
> > Our leased line went down just a while ago, which somehow caused all > > connections from local users to the server to time out. All
> machines are on
> > OUR side of the line that failed.
>
> This doesn't sound like an Exim problem. More like a network problem.
Right.
>
> > Is there any conf-option so that exim accepts incoming messages without
> > having an outbound connection?
>
> Receiving and sending messages are entirely separate activities, done in
> different processes. There is no tie-up inside Exim.
Problem solved!
Folks! Never forget to exclude your internal hosts from rbl lookups. If rbl
lookups time out connections to port 25 from these hosts also will fail.
