Re: [Exim] SMTP Timeouts sending mail

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Author: Peter Radcliffe
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP Timeouts sending mail
Mike Richardson <doctor@???> probably said:
> Today we had the same problem as reported by Suresh Ramasubramanian
> and it turned out that we were still using the mail-abuse site in
> our anti-spam measures. It was turned off today we think and thus
> DNS lookups were failing. Anyway removing mail-abuse cured the problem.


I'm seeing relays.mail-abuse.org as still perfectly available, rbl is
giving me NXDOMAIN and the mail-abuse.org web pages are sllloooowww.

My wild guess would be that they're being snowed under with all the
requests and retried requests.

P.

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