On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:22:58AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > If I now reboot nestie and try exim -qf again, all the mails are > > forwarded to pigeon quite happily, even though there are probably many > > more than 40 (the number at which I first had the problem). This > > suggests to me that the problem is not really pigeon refusing > > connection, but nestie ceasing to be able to make the connection. > > Running nestie's /etc/init.d/networking restart makes no difference. > > It just happened again... only this time rebooting nestie didn't work, > rebooting pigeon did. Argh! > > Forgot to mention in the original post: nestie is headless, I ssh into > it. Ping, the ssh connection, nfs and web browsing all still work - > it's only exim that's caught a cold.
Are you sure this isn't an exim config issue? It's been a long time since I used exim but IIRC it has a limit on concurrent deliveries. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]