Re[3]: [Exim] temporarily rejected RCPT -> fixed itself?

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Author: Richard Welty
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re[3]: [Exim] temporarily rejected RCPT -> fixed itself?
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:50:19 -0800 (PST) Marilyn Davis <marilyn@???> wrote:

> Thank you Richard.
>
> > > telling it's about to call spamc? Could it perhaps be a problem with
> > > spamassassin's spamd not accepting the connection from spamc?
> >
> > in general, temp rejects right after a reboot generally mean that some
> > anciliary process (PostgreSQL, MySQL, clamd, etc.) didn't start
> > at the same time as exim.
>
> Hmmm. This would be a process that exim is instructed to use in the
> configure file? There are only dnslookup, dsearch and lsearch going
> on in that configure file.


as someone else pointed out, make sure that your DNS resolver
is up and running.

are any of your searches against file systems that failed to mount?
i'm not sure how exim will behave in that circumstance. it bears
looking into.

richard
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