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Re: Exim "closing connection" for no apparent reason



On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:22:58AM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> > If I now reboot nestie and try exim -qf again, all the mails are
> > forwarded to pigeon quite happily, even though there are probably many
> > more than 40 (the number at which I first had the problem). This
> > suggests to me that the problem is not really pigeon refusing
> > connection, but nestie ceasing to be able to make the connection.
> > Running nestie's /etc/init.d/networking restart makes no difference.
> 
> It just happened again... only this time rebooting nestie didn't work,
> rebooting pigeon did. Argh!
> 
> Forgot to mention in the original post: nestie is headless, I ssh into
> it. Ping, the ssh connection, nfs and web browsing all still work -
> it's only exim that's caught a cold.

Are you sure this isn't an exim config issue?  It's been a long time
since I used exim but IIRC it has a limit on concurrent deliveries.

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we
  ourselves possess.
          -- Gandalf the Grey



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