>> You are keeping an SMTP
>> connection open, thus reducing the number available for everyone else
>> (if you have a limit set), and you have a process running which is
>> taking up real and virtual memory and other process resources.
I was assuming that exim would discard all privs, release all "locks",
and then exec a *TINY* programme which t a l k e d v e r y s l o w l y
and knows just enough to reply "550" to all lines of input.
>> Exim sends its SMTP responses in single write() calls.
Nah -- special program ....
>> It would be silly to send them out one character at a time.
But the speciual programme can ....
>> Besides, they are typically not very many characters long.
Sure, but a dozen or so ....
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