Szerző: Peter Bowyer Dátum: Címzett: exim-users Tárgy: Re: [exim] SMTP command timeout for every message,
even on successful send
On 13 January 2011 23:52, Matt Wood <mattwood@???> wrote: > For every email my application sends I get an "SMTP command timeout on
> connection from localhost" error. This makes sense with what I've read
> in the docs because if I have my application send an email and then
> immediately run "exiwhat" the output shows that it's handling an
> incoming connection from localhost and it stays that way until it
> times out after 5 minutes.
>
> It's doing this even upon successful message delivery. That is to say,
> I can send an email, exim will deliver it, it'll appear in my inbox,
> and yet exiwhat output still shows that it's handling a connection.
> And, after 5 minutes I'll get the timeout message in the logs.
>
> Clearly I have something misconfigured. Any thoughts as to what could
> be causing this? Is it a problem? Messages seem to be delivered fine.
Is your sending program correctly sending 'QUIT' after it successfully
sends the message? If it neither sends QUIT or hangs up the
connection, Exim will stay listening for a command until it hits the 5
minute timeout and hangs up the connection itself.
