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Author: Jeremy Harris
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] "Introduce a delay into the SMTP transaction" - connection timeout
On 19/09/17 22:23, SW & Work SaS wrote:
> I tried to put these set in the smtp transport of our exim conf
> connect_timeout = 10m
> command_timeout = 5m
> data_timeout = 5m
> final_timeout = 10m
> but they did not help.
>
> Question, is there anything I can do (or try) to manage the long initial
> delay while connecting to this servers ?


If that's a delay before they send the banner then command_timeout
is the relevant one (and the defaults are fine for a 19 second
delay).

So something else is going on. Try running a delivery with debug
enabled; what sequence of operations is the transport process
actually seeing?
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Cheers,
Jeremy