Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
CC: Nigel Metheringham
Subject: Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> > I'm not sure that having a 30 second RFC1413 timeout is useful in any
> > normal circumstances nowadays. Best bet is to reduce it down to (say) 5
> > seconds.
>
> I agree.


Do you think I should change the default to 5s?

> Unix systems with shell access for many users seem to be not very
> common any more.


Maybe not in the Real World [tm] but I suspect they are still quite
common in academia.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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