Re: [Exim] Re: [OT] Detecting closed exim -bS pipe in Perl

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sheldon Hearn
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: [OT] Detecting closed exim -bS pipe in Perl
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> I give up. Neither exim -bs nor exim -bS are really easy to deal with
> when you're trying to pump masses of mail into the queue and handle the
> case where you duff something.
>
> How do other people get this right?


I hope you've remembered to set autoflush on the pipe in Perl. Without
it, things can be very confused.

It shouldn't be hard. Also, with -bs Exim shouldn't ever go away until
you either send QUIT or close the pipe.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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