We had this exact same problem when we moved our new email
server into our DMZ and it turned out that we weren't allowing the
AUTH service through.
I noticed when connecting (even with telnet) it took ages, a netstat -
tn on the Linux box showed an outgoing Auth connection.
Once I allowed this traffic, everything was ok.
-Andy-
On 2 Aug 2001, at 18:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:46:36PM +0100, John D. Wilson wrote:
> > We've started having problems with clients sending mail via exim.
> > All our users mail clients e.g. outlook, pegasus, outlook express etc
> > are throwing up timeout errors when sending mail. Telnetting to
> > the mail server's SMTP port take upwards of 70 seconds to display
> > the banner.
>
> Check out -
>
> > The system is a Linux box running 2.2.17-21
> > Exim version 3.22
> > Any help gratefully received
>
> If you telnet to localhost port 25? Does it still take that much delay?
>
> What's the load on the system, how many threads of [exim|pop daemon etc]
> are running on that? How much disk space free?
>
> That could be another reason for exim slowing down. Or maybe a lot of
> undeliverable junk in the mail queue courtesy sircam.
>
> -suresh
>
>
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