Re: [Exim] mail "loop"

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: Jim Savoy
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] mail "loop"
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 23:33, Jim Savoy wrote:
> We are running exim 4.05 on a Redhat 7.2 box. Our mail
> servers work flawlessly except for one unsual problem: occasionally
> (I'd say about once per every 4000 messages) the sending host does
> not seem to realize that the email it has sent us was successfully
> delivered. So it sends it again and again and again. The mail is


Every time I have seen this, it has been because of one or two reasons -

    Aggressive timeouts at one end or the other
    MTU path discovery issues (over-aggressive firewall?)


    srs