Re: [EXIM] Exim wishlist: 'tar-baby' facilities

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Autor: Piete Brooks
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A: Evan Leibovitch
Cc: exim-users
Asunto: Re: [EXIM] Exim wishlist: 'tar-baby' facilities
>> 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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