Re: [exim] pipe transport and transport filter timeouts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Chris Lightfoot
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] pipe transport and transport filter timeouts
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Chris Lightfoot wrote:

> In the situation where the script waits before returning
> any output, I find that exim (4.50, from a Debian package,
> and also in 4.34, compiled from the source) will pass on a
> blank mail to whatever the target of the address_pipe
> transport is (i.e., procmail or whatever). What seems to
> be happening is that exim gives up on the transport filter
> after the timeout, but the fact that the filter timed out
> is ignored.


Fixed in 4.51 (ChangeLog PH/45).

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