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.

Again, not enough coffee, yesterday.

Daniel