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Author: Fred Viles
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Subject: Re: [exim] long delays sending (not ident related) (mypost: rl3sept27)
On 29 Sep 2005 at 18:46, rich lott wrote about
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|...
| Thanks, I set primary_hostname directly and it seems to work!

You mean it fixed the delays sending to shinyblue.net as well? Then
they were probably doing an intentional delay due to the unresolvable
HELO name you were giving them.

I do that here, delaying 40 seconds for unverifiable HELO names.
It's an effective defence against some email worms (eg Bagle).

- Fred






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