Paul Miles wrote:
>
Are u using the RBL facility.
I find that if the server has problems contacting the specified rbl
servers it just hangs around for ages.
If you ask me its a bug, exim should write something to the paniclog if
it is suffering none trivial timeouts like this.
Regards
Mark Guz
> Recently, the last few days, I have been experiencing some strange problems
> with exim.
>
> It only seems to be partially listening on port 25.
>
> ie. When I telnet to our mail server, port 25, I get the following :
>
> Trying 10.0.0.10...
> Connected to 10.0.0.10.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> It just sits here for ever.
>
> If I restart or HUP exim, and try again, it works fine for a few hours
> before reverting back to the above behaviour.
>
> ie. The following appears immediately.
> Trying 10.0.0.10...
> Connected to 10.0.0.10.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 relay2.allsecurenet.com ESMTP Exim 3.33 #2 Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:26:15
> +0100
>
> The really strange thing is that this server has been working properly for
> months, and now without any kind of user intervention it has started
> breaking on me.
>
> I am currently running Exim 3.33 on a SuSE Linux platform.
>
> Can anyone suggest any further diagnosis I could perform to get to the
> bottom of this? Its thoroughly confusing me!
>
> Thanks and Kind regards,
>
> Paul Miles
> All Secure Networks
>
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Scotland On Line
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