On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mark S. Guz wrote:
> I identified which was the broken server, but surely exim itself should
> have reported an error in contacting this server.
> It gave me no clue whatsoever it was having difficulty, apart from
> taking a minute to respond on port 25.......
There is no way that Exim, in the middle of obeying a DNS lookup, can
let you know what is happening. If it takes a long time to connect, it
takes a long time to connect... It's all out of Exim's hands because the
lookup is handled by calling a DNS resolver function.
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