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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Evan Leibovitch, Piete Brooks
CC: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [EXIM] Exim wishlist: 'tar-baby' facilities
Subject: [EXIM] several messages
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Fair enough. What about a configurable response delay, then, such that the
> full message displays together, but maybe X seconds after the request is
> determined to be rejected (X being a number that is as long as possible
> without causing a timeout).


That is fairly trivial to implement. But I think I need a number of
people positively supporting this before doing it.

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Piete Brooks wrote:

> 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.


That is of course more work to implement.

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