smtp Transaction Time

[jancas]

Hi,

I tested mail sever on mxtoolbox and I get two warnings:

6.178 seconds - Warning on Connection time
8.767 seconds - Not good! on Transaction Time

Is this due to a Exim configuration?

Thank you.

[ken]

Hi,

I tested mail sever on mxtoolbox and I get two warnings:

6.178 seconds - Warning on Connection time
8.767 seconds - Not good! on Transaction Time

Is this due to a Exim configuration?

Thank you.

Not sure if you got your answer yet but this but this is normal. It's doing an SMTP callback which is an anti-spam technique used to verify spammers return addresses that are most likely forged. This delay is set as a throttle so spammers don't bog out your system.

You can read more about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_ ... rification

Here is the setting:

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# cat /etc/exim/exim.conf | grep query_timeout
rfc1413_query_timeout = 5s

It can be changed to 0s if you want to disable it but unless it's really effecting your quality of service this setting should be fine and is an Exim default which you can read more about here: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/d ... _file.html

[jancas]

Hi,

I tested mail sever on mxtoolbox and I get two warnings:

6.178 seconds - Warning on Connection time
8.767 seconds - Not good! on Transaction Time

Is this due to a Exim configuration?

Thank you.

Not sure if you got your answer yet but this but this is normal. It's doing an SMTP callback which is an anti-spam technique used to verify spammers return addresses that are most likely forged. This delay is set as a throttle so spammers don't bog out your system.

You can read more about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_ ... rification

Here is the setting:

Code: Select all

# cat /etc/exim/exim.conf | grep query_timeout
rfc1413_query_timeout = 5s

It can be changed to 0s if you want to disable it but unless it's really effecting your quality of service this setting should be fine and is an Exim default which you can read more about here: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/d ... _file.html

Ok, thank you very much!