On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:05:15PM +0000,
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> is thought to have said:
> When a message is successfully delivered over a TCP/IP SMTP connection, Exim
> looks in the hints database for the transport to see if there are any queued
> messages waiting for the host to which it is connected. If it finds one, it
> creates a new Exim process using the -MC option (which can only be used by a
> process running as root or the Exim user) and passes the TCP/IP socket to it.
> The new process does only those deliveries that are routed to the connected
> host, and may in turn pass the socket on to a third process, and so on. The
> batch_max option of the smtp transport can be used to limit the number of
> messages sent down a single connection. The second and subsequent messages
> delivered down an SMTP connection are identified in the main log by the
> addition of an asterisk after the closing square bracket of the IP address.
I read that, but it doesn't answer my question. To reword it:
Why do messages not get delivered down the same connection when I do
something like:
exim -v -R @aol.com
but for other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate "waiting for
passed connections to get used"?
Tabor
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