[Gllug] Exim4 mail problem

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:47:02AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> Hi
> I wonder if anyone with more experience of Exim4 can throw any light on a
> problem we are currently experiencing.
> 
> I have a number of messages apparently 'stuck' in the smtp delivery phase
> - the majority of which are for the same domain.
> 'Exiwhat' shows for each message;
> 'waiting for a remote delivery subprocess to finish'
> 
> netstat shows that all connections to port 25 of the respective receiving IP
> address are in the 'CLOSE_WAIT' state.
> 
> 
> Is there any where I can tell what is actually going on ?

Network problems ?
Telnet to that IP port 25
you should get a 220 message
then type quit
and the connection should close.

Try that with a local machine first so that you can see what happens.


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