On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> is it possible to define a timeout for host_lookup? I haven't found an option
> called "host_lookup_timeout" or similar.
Exim doesn't implement its own timeout; it relies on the DNS resolver.
You can influence the resolver by setting dns_retrans and dns_retry, but
exactly how these affect things depends on your resolver (and probably
the underlying name server too).
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