Re: [Exim] 421 Service not available

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Riccardo Baldanzi wrote:

> Connecting to navgwnet.intnet.mu [202.123.2.2.25] ... connected
> and exim waits and waits so on.

how long ? do a debug.

> [root@mta02 exim]# telnet navgwnet.intnet.mu 25
> Trying 202.123.2.2...
> Connected to navgwnet.intnet.mu.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 421 Service not available
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root@mta02 exim]#

how long do you have to wait to get this ?

> Is that king of answer wrong?

no. it's perfectly valid.

> Why exim doesn't report any error?

cause it's not supposed to. you don't want to get an error for every
single transient failure out there. you'll get notified in due
course...

ps. use more aggressive timeouts if you don't like the default
settings ;)

--
[-]