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

Andrew Rosolino andrew
Tue Aug 14 11:35:18 PDT 2007


Hmm me either I just set these ones to 1m

transport_filter_timeout = 1m
connect_timeout = 1m
command_timeout = 1m
smtp_receive_timeout = 1m

They were all at 5m..

Sincerly,
Andrew Rosolino
Programmer
 


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at pananix.com
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at pananix.com] On Behalf Of Lonni J Friedman
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 2:17 PM
To: linux-users at pananix.com
Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Exim Timeout.. Causing server to get way
backedup!


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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