Re: [exim] Troubleshooting

On 28/11/2006 00:45, jeff sacksteder wrote:
> I have Exim 4.60 as my local SMTP server at home. When I send a message in
> my MUA, there is a long delay when I send my message. After 30 seconds or
> so, I get a progress indicator showing my message being transferred and
> processed. Is this a known symptom of some common misconfiguration?

Yup. Your exim is probably waiting for a response to an ident request. I
disabled this for my LAN, and shortened the timeout for the 'net, by setting

rfc1413_hosts = ! 192.168.0.0/16
rfc1413_query_timeout = 10s

Cheers,

John.