* O'Reilly, Stuart <stuart.o'reilly@???> [20040423 02:49]: wrote:
> I currently run Exim 4.30 on my linux server and recently starting using
> SMTP Auth to allow fellow users to send email when on the road. Everything
> is fine apart from a delay when connecting to the mail server. One of the
> users reports this problem every time he sends mail thru my mail server.
> Both he and I are on DSL connections.
>
> To quote his words in a recent email:
>
> The test still took a while... It says 'Connecting', 'Connected',
> waits for ages, 'Sending' and finally 'Sent'... :) (I never even saw
> 'Authorising')
So, there are two entries in your exim configuration which read
something like below:
rfc1413_hosts = *
rfc1413_query_timeout = 10s
Those are the values in my file, but there is actually no harm in
commenting them out and giving Exim daemon a HUP.
That is where my suspicion is.
> However, when retrieving mail, it is nearly instant for him and other users.
Well, pop3 and smtp are two different evils ;-)
> Both the POP & SMTP authentication use the same MySQL table.
Ok.
[Snipped the rest]
cheers
- wash
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