Nigel,
Tried exim-d -bh and found probs with DNS issues, and fixed it, but the
problem's still there? Sending mail via telnet or exim -d -bh worsk fine and
sends instantly but only when I use thunderbird to send mail, it's slow - but
to log in and read mail it's fine?
Thanks - Piers
Quoting Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???>:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:29 +0000, exim@??? wrote:
> > do anyone know
> > what I'm doing wrong to make sending email extremely slow?
>
> Suggest you telnet to your server on port 25 and create a message in
> SMTP and watch the results (an alternative - probably better way - is to
> run "exim -d -bh ip-address-you-would-connect-from" when you will see
> additional information on whats happening).
>
> * If there is an initial delay then you are probably suffering
> from either DNS problems (exim trying to do reverse lookups
> which fail) or there is a RFC1413 ident lookup being done which
> is stalling
> * Delays at RCPT TO stage normally point to verification problems
> - again either DNS timeouts, or callout problems (if you do
> those)
> * A delay after the . at the end of DATA is down to your content
> scanning setup. Debug should hopefully give an indication of
> what was going slowly.
>
> Thats the most likely problems - however there are other less likely
> possibilities.
>
> Nigel.
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