On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad wrote:
> hi!
>
> just got smtp auth working, but realized another problem. The time
> elapsed form I press "send" to the password question comes is very long.
> When I try to telnet to port 25 on my server, the time from the telnet
> window is opened to exim replies is very long.
>
> is this due to my internet connection or due to some exim config or
> perhaps my hardware?
>
> any ideas?
Most probably an ident-issue, run exim with exim -d -bd and connect
to it, you will see where/why it hangs.
Check your rfc1413_hosts and rfc1413_query_timeout settings, or check your
firewall (I bet you have one) to not drop but cleanly reject
ident-requests.
