On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick spake thusly:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:50:01PM +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick spake thusly:
>> >> > http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/local_scan.c
>> >> How does this tie in with Exiscan, as it would be excellent to have both
>> >> tied in at once :)
>> > And if you get duplicate mail, don't blame anyone but yourselves.
>> Not having looked at linking both, I am curious how you feel there would
>> be duplicate mails.
>
> RFC2821 S6.1:
> [...]
>| To avoid receiving duplicate messages as the result of timeouts, a
>| receiver-SMTP MUST seek to minimize the time required to respond to
>| the final <CRLF>.<CRLF> end of data indicator. See RFC 1047 [28] for
>| a discussion of this problem.
>
> I think that's pretty explicit.
>
> If you don't see why, S4.5.3.2 "DATA Termination" has a bit more discussion.
>
Okay I see where you are coming from. And I can see there is a strong
possibilty of time outs etc, although I wonder if the source for spamc
was included into local_scan would this speed things up, I don't know,
only throwing the idea out.
See Ya, Sean
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