Re: [Exim] Re: the Klez virus

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Patrice Fournier
CC: exim-users, Matthew Byng-Maddick
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Re: the Klez virus
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Patrice Fournier wrote:

> The latest Exim does have a local_scan_timeout so we can make sure we will
> respond by x seconds to the remote host so if we set this value correctly,
> we should never see a double because of a long scan... I'm not sure Exim
> kills the child so the load may still get high on the machine.


Exim doesn't even know there is a child. It runs local_scan() within its
own process.

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