On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, paul spandler wrote:
> When a user tries to send email, the MUA hangs whilst exim works out
> what to do with the smtp session. I guess the delay is due to exim
> attempting to carry out a variety of DNS lookups.
> My question is, can I set another option to tell exim to queue messages
> faster in the event of the above-mentioned connectivity problems?
It all depends on what is causing the delay. Run a test with -bh to find
out what lookups it is doing. At a guess, it may be host_lookup, if
that's at its default setting.
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