Re: [exim] SMTP timeout sending mail to gmail

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP timeout sending mail to gmail
On 08/04/06, Daniel Webb <lists@???> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
>
> > The problem is at the gmail end so you'll have to ask them what's going on.
>
> Is this a known problem? I would think that if every exim user is getting all
> their mail to gmail bouncing I wouldn't be the only one reporting it (and yes
> I searched the archives).


One of my Exim servers forwards all of my mail to Gmail for
road-warrior access - never seen a problem.

> So I'm wondering if there's something on my end that brings out the problem
> where no one else does. I don't even know how to go about figure out what
> that would be though, so I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to go about
> it.


Debug a delivery, run tcpdump on it, etc. Try lots of interactive
telnets to their port 25.

> Based on my searching so far it looks like emailing gmail support would be a
> complete waste of my time. Other posters on other lists who are more
> important than me (ISP admins and so on) have reported they were completely
> ignored by gmail support. Power breeds arrogance, eh?


Not really arrogance, just scale.

Peter

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