[Linux-users] Exim Timeout.. Causing server to get way backedup!

[Lonni J Friedman]

Sure you can change it.  Its been years since I ran Exim, so I don't
remember specifically how.  Read the documentation.

On 8/14/07, Andrew Rosolino <andrew at shiftcode.com> wrote:
> My question is.. It timesout at 5 minutes.. Can we lower this to like 1
> minute.. I don't want it spending 5 minutes on all of these messages.
>
> Sincerly,
> Andrew Rosolino
> Programmer
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at pananix.com
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at pananix.com] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 2:02 PM
> To: linux-users at pananix.com
> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Exim Timeout.. Causing server to get way
> backedup!
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007, Andrew Rosolino wrote:
> >Yes we do have a lot of people subscribed from China.. but this is not
> >SPAM because these users subscribed for this and we send them the
> >e-mails.
>
> In that case the problem is the MX server for the domain isn't responding
> and your system is attempting to connect to deliver messages queued for the
> domain.
>
> This could be a DNS problem, but it's more likely a network or server
> problem.
>
> If the domain really is x.cn, there are three MX records, but all three of
> them have the same IP address which is almost as stupid as the time all of
> Microsoft's DNS servers were on the same class C /24 network.

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