Re: [Exim] Timeouts during outbound SMTP data transfer

Philip Hazel writes ("Re: [Exim] Timeouts during outbound SMTP data transfer"):
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > It looks to me like the receiving site has a problem with large
> > packets. Perhaps their firewall is blocking outbound ICMP
> > fragmentation needed packets.
>
> See FAQ Q0021 if you haven't already. This has been seen in the past,
> but I don't know how common it is.

Oops, sorry for asking a FAQ. (I did read through the FAQ index but
obviously missed it.) I'm still interested in finding out what
people's usual answer to this problem is.

Suresh Ramasubramanian writes:
> Perhaps they dont want large mails at all? :^)

Well, ignore the problem and wait for the mailing list software to
throw them off is one answer ...

Ian.