Re: [Exim] SMTP Timeouts sending mail

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Szerző: John D. Wilson
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Címzett: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] SMTP Timeouts sending mail
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <mallet@???>
To: "John D. Wilson" <j.wilson@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP Timeouts sending mail


> 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?


Yip, see original message

>
> What's the load on the system,

load average: 0.35, 0.30, 0.12

>how many threads of [exim|pop daemon etc]
> are running on that?

varies, usually 8 (ish) (I do have 600 users!)

> How much disk space free?

Loads :-)
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1               241116     60270    168398  26% /
/dev/sda8              2023920     68932   1852176   4% /home
/dev/sda9              2031888    153820   1774852   8% /software
/dev/sda6              3020140   1360788   1505936  47% /usr
/dev/sda7              1027768    668948    306612  69% /var
/dev/sdb5             17496652   3188616  13419244  19% /var/spool/imap



> That could be another reason for exim slowing down. Or maybe a lot of
> undeliverable junk in the mail queue courtesy sircam.


Our scanner bounces Sircam mails and moves them out of the queue.

> -suresh
>
>


John