Re: [Exim] Timeouts during outbound SMTP data transfer

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Timeouts during outbound SMTP data transfer
Ian Jackson rearranged electrons thusly:

> It looks to me like the receiving site has a problem with large
> packets. Perhaps their firewall is blocking outbound ICMP
> fragmentation needed packets.


Quite likely.

> If it's common, what do people do about it ? I'm not sure I have the
> effort to chase these people up, but surely they must have noticed
> that many sites can't send them large mails ?


Perhaps they dont want large mails at all? :^)

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