On fre, 2004-10-01 at 00:46 +0000, Ebruntjen wrote: > I am setting up a new exim mail server and have an unexpected
> problem. There are two symptoms:
>
> 1) Sending mail is slow to initiate from clients.
> 2) Most surprisingly... exim command line options are slow to
> respond. exim -bp and others take about 25 - 30 seconds to show any
> results. However, exim -bV is quick as can be.
>
> I have set rfc1413_query_timeout=0s to no avail.
> I'm not doing any host_lookup at the moment.
are you experiencing the delays when running tests as a user other than
root or exim (these two accounts have their UID hardcoded in the
binary). any other account may have to do lookups in a naming service
(NIS, LDAP, whatever your nsswitch.conf says) which can take time.
if you're seeing the problem with root, strace (or truss in Solaris) may
reveal what Exim is waiting for.
