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

Lonni J Friedman netllama
Tue Aug 14 11:39:37 PDT 2007


And you restarted the daemon after making the change?  Have you
checked the log(s) for errors?

On 8/14/07, Andrew Rosolino <andrew at shiftcode.com> wrote:
> 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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