On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
> Yesterday I noticed two saved files (cron runs it every 6 hours, so there
> should always be one), the first being "Apr 18 16:09 1996-04-18+12:42:03"
> i.e. it was "mv"ed at 12:42, but last written to over three hours later at
> 16:09, so it looks like some caution is needed when processing files ....
If a message contains a number of addressees and it takes a long time
for each delivery (e.g. a large message trickling over slow networks) then
this can happen, since Exim does not close the log file in between. Does
anyone think it should?
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