[Pkg-exim4-users] SMTP-AUTH not working

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:51:46PM -0700, Chris Purves wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> >Any chance that your ISP might be blocking incoming port 25? Does
> >submission on port 587 have the same problem?
> 
> The problem was along these lines.  Port 25 seems to be blocked for 
> outgoing on the network I was testing the e-mail client.

I see ;)

>   I added listening on port 587 for situations like that and
>   everything is working now; or rather it was always working and I
>   just now realised it.  Thanks for pointing out the most obvious
>   reason.  It could have taken weeks for my brain to turn on.

You're welcome.

> Yes, you're right.  I reset to 30s and from some hosts it takes about 
> 35s and from others about 3s.  I must have made a mistake when I 
> measured 60s.  I have set the timeout to 5s, which I think is the 
> default for exim 4.6 (I have 4.5).

That sounds sensible, and 5s is the timeout in later exim versions,
right.

Greetings
Marc

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