I got an offlist reply from a helpful gent who tried using telnet to
simulate a smtp connection to my server.
I won't copy his email verbatim, so as to protect his privacy, but he
did say:
<snip>
I did a quick test from a mail server I have access to right now and
after
I entered the Mail from: line, I never got a response back.
</snip>
He points out he doesn't have rDNS on that box and asks if I'm checking
for that or anything else.
Frankly, I don't know <frown>.
I don't see anything in the exim.conf file that allows me to set or
unset rDNS lookup.
He asks me what my logs show, and though I've looked I don't see any
entry for his IP#, for his ehlo domain, for his recpt from address, or
even for the time my server returned.
Is there some way I can have exim give me greater logging detail? I
don't know where to start if connections aren't logged.
Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? Or at least point me in some
meaningful direction? I just don't have enough exim experience to know
where to look.
FWIW, I'm no longer quite sure it's a timing problem, but I've set the
smtp timeout from the default up to 5 minutes and it's still not coming
through.
Thanks!
Jeff
On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:04 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> It looks as if the problem is a timing problem, that when heavily
> loaded servers take too long to send a message, exim disconnects.
>
> Is there a way to adjust this behavior so exim will allow more time
> before it disconnects? I looked in the conf file and can't find
> anything except rfc1413_query_timeout, which is set for 0s. My
> understanding is that 0s disables it completely. Am I wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff
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Professional Internet Services & Support / Consulting / Colocation
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