Re: exim configuration problem. why is it doing this?
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:39:30PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:17:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:50:11PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:31:28PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > > I run a small home LAN. Two Debian Woodies, and two Macintoshes. One
> > > > of the Woodies acts as a community link to the Internet via ppp, and
> > > > diald. Both Woodies are default installations, which have exim
> > > > installed, and configured with option 2.
> > > >
> > > > My problem is that every 15 minutes, the modem becomes active, the ppp
> > > > connection is established and held up for 30 to 60 s and then dropped.
> > > > I have traced this to exim, by the simple expedient of deinstalling
> > > > various packages until the dialing stopped. I don't want dialing every
> > > > 15 minutes. Why is it happening? I have not queued any outing email.
> > > > Anyway, exim is configured to dial out immediately when an email is
> > > > sent from a MUA. So there can't be a queue of messages waiting to go
> > > > out. And, no one on the outside knows what my internal IP addresses
> > > > are, so no one can be sending me mail. So what is going on?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think the standard installation sets up cron job to run evey 15
> > > minutes. Check /etc/cron.d
> > >
> > Yes. It does. But why? Exim seems to send outgoing mail
> > immediately. So how can there be a queue of mail?
>
> When you send a message from your mail program, it would call exim to
> deliver the email. If there is no connection to your ISP at that time,
> exim would place the email in the queue for later delivery.
>
Maybe it is in the mail queue for a few seconds, but lights flash on
the modem with 2 s of my pressing 'y' in mutt, a connection is made
and, I suppose, my mail is delivered. It is this fact that there is a
connection made each time I finish an email which makes me wonder
about why the use of cron.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@quiknet.com
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