On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:26:56PM +0100, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> That is a pretty good thought which I hadn't considered, although
> what I'm not sure of is if this affects the initial connection to Exim. I
> can understand how a lookup to a blocking site may hang your
> email *after* you have said who you are.. But at what point in the
> mail transcript does it connect to the blocking site?
I'm presuming (and thats all it is) that there is a look up taking
place of the connectors hostname/ip address to determine the
origin of the connection.
If that isn't the case then it might be that connections which are
made are taking up so much of a processes time doing the lookup
that there are too many processes running it exceed the max number
of allowed exim processes and thus chucks you out.
We were getting a mixture of instant 'too many processes' and 60+
time outs.
Mike
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