Please i beg u , enjoy your new year
Exim shall always be there but a new year is a gift from God and we should
treat it as such
happy NEW YEAR
dunccs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell King" <rmk+exim@???>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <linux@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] timeouts
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:02:37PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > > 2004-12-31 10:07:01 1CkJdQ-0006Z6-JV ** james4765@???: retry
timeout exceeded
> > >
> > > 10-Dec-2004 05:12:56 16-Dec-2004 22:31:49 17-Dec-2004 06:31:49 *
> > > T:relay.verizon.net:206.46.170.12 110 333 Connection timed out
> >
> > # exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry
> > # exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp
> >
> > Verizon does sender verify callbacks (which really should die), and when
> > their callbacks timeout, they defer the email. Too many deferrals in
> > too short a time and exim behaves like you see it behave.
>
> Thanks for your explaination about exim's behaviour. However, now that
> I've had more time to investigate, I don't think the problem is their
> callouts. I suspect verizon has just plainly broken something with
> their incoming mail servers / network:
>
> $ telnet 206.46.170.12 25
> Trying 206.46.170.12...
>
> tcptraceroute appears to confirm that something's up:
>
> 15 p1-0.verizonol4.bbnplanet.net (4.24.242.94) 134.413 ms 136.832 ms
136.632 ms
> 16 gigchannel9-0--12-0.core1.dfw-tx.vzlink.com (206.46.128.78) 137.487
ms 137.318 ms 136.858 ms
> 17 * * *
> 18 * * *
>
> It appears to be the same story from a couple of other networks in the
> UK.
>
> --
> Russell King
>
>
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