[HLUG] Exim 4.50 on Debian 3.1 external greet_pause?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi John,

>On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:53:14PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a virtual host at a data centre which I am moving stuff from
home
>> onto running Debian 3.1 (mainly stock packages from stable/security).
I
>> have installed Exim-daemon-heavy and configured it for secondary MX
for
>> some domains.
>> 
>> The trouble is it seems to have implemented something similar to
>> Sendmail's greet_pause feature, because it is taking around 20
seconds
>> to respond externally, when on localhost it is running fine.  The
only
>> modification I made other than what dpkg-reconfigure exim-conf did
was
>> to add Clam support, but it was like this before.  I chose the
Internet
>> SMTP delivery option, and then mainly went through defaults from
there,
>> choosing split configuration (as I am very new to Exim).
>> 
>> If this goes on I may switch to using Sendmail again, but wanted to
>> battle it out with another MTA to see how it went.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Andrew.
>
>Hi Andrew
>
>Maybe ident (rfc1413)? I have 'rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s' in most
>configs as this has solved delays in the past (especially when using
>exim as a smarthost for a pc without an ident server).

Ok did a test on my machine and this is correct as the firewall here
logs the incoming port 13 request.  Where abouts in the config do I need
to disable it?  I use the split config.

I also notice you are using Bytemark, which is where I have my VM
hosted.

Andrew.