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Author: Paul Miles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Strange Exim problem
I'm not using any kind of real time blocking list.

I really am quite perplexed by this. Absolutely nothing is being logged in
the exim log - I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of TCP/IP issue.

Any more thoughts?

Paul Miles
All Secure Networks

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S. Guz" <mguz@???>
To: "Paul Miles" <paul.miles@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Strange Exim problem


> 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
> >
> > Visit www.allsecuredomain.com for low cost
> > web hosting and domain registration
> >
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