On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:
> Are you saying that each time Exim is called on port 25 for an incoming
> email, it will re-read the conf file? I would like for that to be the case,
> but it is not doing that on my system.
The daemon won't re-read the config file, no. But, after it has received
a message, if it is configured to do immediate delivery, and it is
running as the Exim user (recommended), then the new process that it
forks to to do the delivery will re-exec Exim and thus reread the file.
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