Jürgen Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (So 19 Mär 2006 12:18:16 CET): > Tim Jackson wrote: > > >> after few days running flawlessly, exim suddenly decides to fail. > >> I then find hundreds of > >> Connection from [some address] refused: too many connections > >> in the log file and 20 instances of exim running but idling. > > > > How do you know they were idling? What did "exiwhat" show? > > exiwhat says "handling incoming connection from smtp-send.myrealbox.com > [151.155.5.143]". With idling I meant they don't consume CPU time. >
Do you use TLS for incoming messages?
(On Linux sometimes /dev/random (which is used by exim) doesn't generate
enough entropy.)
Best regards from Dresden
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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