Re: [EXIM] several messages

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] several messages
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > I'll double the data_timeout from the default 5m to 10m. If I need to go
> > higher, I'll set up a special router for that particular host.
>
> For the record, it would have been final_timeout you needed to change,
> not data_timeout.


Thanks for that. I realized that after seeing the later messages.

> Even if you write [a filter to drop '\0'] in C it won't be very
> efficient, as an extra process is involved.


Agreed. I don't want to run a separate process on each message,
especially if

> RFC 821, and the revision thereof that is being worked on both say
>
>       The mail data may contain any of the 128 ASCII characters. 

>
> so as far as I can tell, nulls are not illegal.


> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Khaled Tabbara wrote:
>
> > We are seeing the same exact symptoms. In some cases, the user on the
> > receiving end is getting multiple (20+) copies of the same message as a
> > result of Exim's retrying.


That is not (as far as I know) been happening at my down stream site.
So we are talking about different situations.

-j

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