Re: [Exim] lack of timeout on host lookup failures

That'll be Mailman then, I will go and bother them...

Ta

Dirk

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:27, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>
> > I run a few small mail servers here and when a valid user's domain's NS
> > is unavailable, exim tries again immediately. There doesn't seem to be
> > a) a limit to the number of times tried or b) some kind of timeout.
> >
> > Or do I need to RTFM more diligently?
> >
> > For example:-
> >
> > 2003-03-25 16:18:12 H=localhost.localdomain (post.tobit.co.uk)
> > [127.0.0.1] F=<pelicans-bounces@???> temporarily rejected RCPT
> > <polly_king25@???>: host lookup did not complete
>
> That is a record of a process on your local host attempting to send a
> message to your server, and getting a rejection. It is not Exim trying
> again immediately, it is the process that is attempting to send the
> message. Turning on connection logging may give you more information.
>
> How can you tell which process? Well, if you run an ident service on
> your host, and don't turn off ident queries in Exim, you might learn the
> identity of the user running the process.
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