Hi everyone,
You can ignore the question about exim. It was doing the
auth/ident lookup on port 113 of the sender and that machine had that port
firewalled. I reduced timeout to 2 seconds in exim.conf with
rfc1413_query_timeout = 2s
Phillip Hellewell
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Phillip Lee Hellewell wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I finally bit the bullet and set up exim (sendmail) on my linux
> server. Now I have mail forwarding directly to my computer, which is
> very nice. I am using mutt now to check my mail; before I was using
> pine.
>
> Easy questions about mutt:
> 1. Can mutt filter my uug mail into a seperate mailbox, or do I
> need
> to just use procmail. If I use procmail, does it go to
> /var/spool/mail/myname.uug or something, or can/should it go directly to
> ~/Mail/uug. Speaking of which, right now mutt copies my mail to ~/mbox,
> but it would be nice to put it in ~/Mail/mbox, with the other mailboxes.
>
> 2. mutt uses vim to create message body, and I assume it is using
> my
> ~/.vimrc for default settings. Can I have a seperate .vimrc for use
> with mutt? I ask because the indenting, which is good for programming,
> gets bothersome, so I am having to type ":set noai" for every e-mail
> message I write.
>
> Question about exim:
> 1. This is a hard question, maybe. I installed qpopper and I
> also set up exim with AUTH LOGIN, so I can now receive and send e-mail
> from remote computers. I can send just fine from one computer, but
> another computer takes 15 seconds before it will even try to send.
> Well, I did "telnet myserver 25" and noticed that it takes 15 seconds
> before it will respond with "... ESMTP Exim 3.35 ..." message. From the
> first computer it responds right away. So what, is it doing a reverse
> DNS lookup or what? But I took out host_lookup = * from exim.conf and
> it still is going slow. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks everyone,
> Phil Hellewell
>
>
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