Send by SMTP (exim) takes more than 60 secs

[marxiano533]

If i use any email software i cant send emails. The software said me taht the SMTP server is not responding.
If i try the server with telnet i see that everythings works fine. But when i send the data the server takes more than 60 secondes to give me the "250 xxxxxxx Message accepted for delivery"

$ telnet mail.somewhere.com 25
Connected to smtp.somewhere.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp.somewhere.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1; Thu,

12 Oct 2000 04:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
helo aplawrence.com
250 smtp.somewhere.com
mail from: tony@aplawrence.com
250 tony@aplawrence.com... Sender ok
rcpt to: foobah@aplawrence.com
550 foobah@aplawrence.com... Relaying denied
rcpt to: foobah@somewhere.com
250 foobah@somewhere.com... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself
test
look ma no headers!
.
//here is what its take more than 60 seconds
250 HA00945 Message accepted for delivery
quit
221 smtp.somewhere.com closing connection

I check the server load and its ok (below 1). I tried to restart exim but the error persist.

What can i try? Anybody can help me at least with any link where i can read possible solutions?

Thanks in advance

M

[sparek-3]

You would have to contact the administrators of the mail.somewhere.com mail server.

Could be a DNS issue somewhere. Perhaps their DNS servers are not working efficiently. Perhaps your domain name's DNS is not set up properly. Could be anything really. Only the people that are behind the mail.somewhere.com mail server can fully answer this question.

[marxiano533]

My server is mail.somewhere.com. I checked with intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health and there are not any issue on the dns.

I use telnet to send an email to a emailbox that is inside my server so there aren't any SMTP transaction from my server to another SMTP server, just the connection between the email software (thunderbird) and the smpt server.

Any ideas?

Thanks...

M

[marxiano533]

To be more clear aplawrence.com and somewhere.com are domains of the server where i am having this issue.

[mfigge]

I'm having exactly the same problem, as marxiano533 described it.

And happens with all the accounts of the server. I have a lot of domains on it.

So if anyone got a solution, please tell us.

[marxiano533]

Another note: If I send an email from webmail it is sent ok. So i assume that the problem is not between my server and servers of email receipts.

[sparek-3]

mail.somewhere.com does not appear to be a cPanel server as it is not using Exim as its MTA.

250 HA00945 Message accepted for delivery

This is not an Exim message ID.

[marxiano533]

This was just an example.

Here you have the test with telnet


[root@ls1 ~]# telnet server.com 2525
Trying 72.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to server.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-server.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 0000001 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:11:43 -0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
helo host.com
250 server.com Hello host.com [190.224.xxx.xxx]
mail from: nil@domain.com
250 OK
rcpt to: nil2@domainoutsideserver.com
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
content of the email
.
HERE IS WHERE IT TAKES MORE THAN 60sec
250 OK id=1OMM1z-00049N-SH


Any ideas?

[vanessa]

The times I've seen this it's due to the resolvers on your server not functioning properly. Run the following command:

dig thecpaneladmin.com

If it takes more than a couple seconds, look at the following part of the dig output:

;; Query time: 45 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 15 23:24:23 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 196


If the ip for SERVER is not what is at the top of your /etc/resolv.conf, then you either need to see why your primary DNS resolver isn't responding, or replace it with one that works. The DNS resolvers look up hostnames for your server, and if the first one isn't responding it will slow down DNS lookups, and therefore slow down processes on your server that rely on them.

[drego85]

I also have the same problem, and I have not solved!

Can you help?

Thanks

[partsace]

Has this issue been solved???

Scott