Exim has recently developed a problem that I cant figure out. The exim logs show no problem. This just started occurring today, I haven't touched exim or anything else on the system. When my email client tries to connect to the server on port 25, it times out! Once it worked after about 5 minutes of waiting. If I try to telnet into the port, it connects but I don't get the normal message:
"220 server.xxx.net ESMTP Exim 3.16 #1 Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:58:33 -0800"
i just get:
"Escape character is '^]'." Internal mail delivery test (exim -d9 user@???) work fine and get delivered.
The process list looks like this:
"exim 8648 1 0 12:28:16 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m"
I start exim from /etc/init.d/sendmail. I'm wondering if I have to make changes to the init file because it's very sendmail specific. None the less, it's been working quite well until now. Where should I be looking?
Thanks.
PS: Please reply to email directly as I'm not on the list.
Gary Ferrer
gary@???
