----- 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
