On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, John Henders wrote:
> I had a bunch of mail queued up on a machine because a broken alias
> driver didn't specify a user id to deliver under (wouldn't it be a good
> idea to make this default to the exim user if not defined?).
I don't think so because this might open a security loophole. I don't
think guessing uids for local delivery is a good idea.
> Anyway, I
> decided to run exim -v -q after fixing the problem to see how quickly
> exim processed the queue. In watching the results, I observered that
> exim was reporting "Connecting to.." with each mail delivery, even where
> there were multiple messages sent to the same host. Is this an artifact
> of using -v? I thought exim delivered all the mail queued up to a host
> down the same smtp connection.
Only if it has previously done the routing to the remote host and
considered connecting to it. (It need not have actually tried a
connection, if, for example, the host's retry time wasn't up.)
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