Re: [exim] Issue with Larger email deliveries and TLS

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Author: Andrew McCombe
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Issue with Larger email deliveries and TLS
Hi

For future reference, this issue turned out to be caused by a faulty switch
setting on the hosting companies side and not an exim problem. Their swich
was set to 10mb/s and half duplex which was causing some ISP's to timeout as
the receiving server was too slow.

Regards
Andrew

On 16 February 2011 11:13, Andrew McCombe <euperia@???> wrote:

> Hi
>
> After trying different things I thought I'd follow up on progress. I am
> now prone to believe that my problem is a firewall issue outside of the
> server. I had completely disabled the TLS on exim and tested again. This
> time the message once again failed to be delivered but the exim mainlog
> contained a different message.
>
> Oddly, trying the same attachment from a different sending host worked
> which makes me wonder if it's a Google mail specific issue.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
> 2011/2/7 Franz Georg Köhler <lists@???>
>
> On Fr, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:36:26 +0000, Andrew McCombe <euperia@???>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'm using exim 4.71 from the exim4-heavy Ubuntu 10.4 package and have it
>> set
>> > up pretty much how I want it. However I'm experiencing issues with some
>> > email not being delivered. I test this by sending an email with a 20mb
>> > attachment from my Gmail account to the server.
>>
>> Maybe you are running out of entropy?
>>
>>
>> What does
>>
>> /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
>>
>> say?
>>
>>
>>
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