On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Mike Bremford wrote:
> I strongly suspect that the connection to MySQL from exim isn't closed
> gracefully, but is just dropped. To be fair I know it isn't just exim
> that does, but I'm humbly suggesting that it's not necessarily a good
> idea - perhaps "whoevers in charge" could tweak the code so that
> database connections are gracefully dropped?
Which release of Exim? This change was made for release 3.32:
6. If a delivery in a subprocess (local or remote) opened a connection to (for
example) an MySQL server, that connection never got properly closed because the
cleanup function was called only in the main process. Calls to the tidyup
function have been added to the subprocesses.
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