Action timeout

hi everyone!

although i think i have a fairly common problem - i could not find a
solution via google right away.

basically i have an action sending out emails that has to run quite
long while being accessed throught a browser. about 30 minutes is
normal in this case.

right now i get a timeout error after 10 minutes and i don’t know
which setting this is coming from.

this is what i have in my production.log:

ActiveRecord::Transactions::TransactionError (Transaction aborted):
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/
transactions.rb:76:in transaction' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:incall’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in sysread' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:inrbuf_fill’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:intimeout’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in rbuf_fill' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:inreaduntil’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in readline' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:664:inrecv_response’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:396:in do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:686:incritical’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:396:in do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:instart’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in start' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.0.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:586:inperform_delivery_smtp’

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where can i set this “max_exec_time” ??

thanks in advance and have a nice day
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