Re: [exim] Waiting for Exim Banner

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Subject: Re: [exim] Waiting for Exim Banner
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:05:20PM +0200, Christoph Purrucker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running exim4 for a while now, and it's really running fast. But
> some customers complain, that sending a mail via our server takes
> exactly 30 seconds before the connection has been established. I
> tcpflow'ed the connection with the following result: Two pairs of
> newlines will be sent during half a minute and after exactly 30 seconds
> the SMTP-banner shows up. Then it's going on fast.
>
> How can I find out, what's Exim doing during this pause? How can I stop
> this?


In your exim.conf Look for:

rfc1413_query_timeout = 30s

and make it:

rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s

If you're using Debian you do it a different way, but they have their own
mailing list.

You could also use google.

Steven
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