Re: [Exim] rcpt to takes up to 90 seconds

At 8:08 -0800 10/30/00, Eddie McCreary wrote:
>I'm new to exim so I apologize if this is a common problem, however I
>couldn't find anything in the
>FAQ or the docs.
>
>I need a simple exim setup for my home network, local delivery and
>forwarding remote messages
>onto the SMTP server of my ISP. I have it working, however it takes around
>90 seconds for "rcpt to"
>to validate the remote address and I can figure out why. I gather from the
>docs that receiver_verify
>is set to false by default, and running "exim -bP receiver_verify" I get
>no_receiver_verify, so I assume
>that's set properly.
>
>Mail does go through, however I'd rather have exim just queue the message
>and only have exim
>validate the syntax of the address when my mail client connects.
>

The responses so far have focused on possible DNS problems. Another
prospective source of difficulty would be failure of the ident protocol on
the originating machine to return a value.

There was a major discussion of ident (identd) a couple of months ago.

--John