Re: [Exim] pipe transport gives "Too much output - remainder…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Frank Elsner
CC: EXIM Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] pipe transport gives "Too much output - remainder discarded"
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Frank Elsner wrote:

>
> When running a shell script through a pipe with "return_fail_output" to track
> down a problem I get the message
>
>                    *** Too much output - remainder discarded ***

>
> What's behind? I'm interested in the unshortened output of the procedure.


There is a limit, so that a pipe command that gets into a loop
generating output will eventually get caught. You can change the limit
by setting the "max_output" option on the pipe transport.

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