On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 18:01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 01:56:18PM +0200, Rémi Letot wrote: > > My mail client and exim are both running on my laptop, and the > > provided logs are from that same laptop. > > > > The fault is the delay between exim accepting the message, and > > actually delivering it to the smarthost. During that delay, my mail > > client is stuck too. > > That is highly implausible. In a normal setup, the SMTP client is out > of the game as soon exim has locally queued the message. Can you run > tcpdump on lo to find out what's happening? I guess that you're > putting the laptop to sleep before the (local) TCP session has been > properly closed, making it subject to the exponential backoff > algorithm and eventually a session timeout. There is not much exim > can do in this situation.
I'm wondering if this is an issue related to the clock changing (or not changing when it should) as a result of the suspend / resume cycle, similar to https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20200619.090409.faf4b641.en.html Regards, Adam