Re: [EXIM] SMTP timeout after DATA

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] SMTP timeout after DATA
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:

> > Any advice on how to do that efficiently. I really don't want to run a
> > perl processes on every message.
>
> You might set up a special transport for this:


> Get a second transport like this:
>
> remote_smtp:
> driver = smtp
>
> remote_silly_smtp:
> driver = smtp
> transport_filter = "/usr/bin/tr -d '\\\\0'"


Ah, I see. I do have to run a separate process for these, but by putting
it in a special transport I can, ...

> And use it like this:
>
> sillymta:
> driver = lookuphost
> domains = "pretty-broken.de:also-broken.de"
> transport = remote_silly_smtp
>
> lookuphost:
> driver = lookuphost
> transport = remote_smtp


so that the extra process is only run for mail to that specific domain.

It still is running extra processes thus contending for resources on my
mail hub, so I would prefer something else, but this does look like what
I will probably have to do.

-j

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