On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, John (TJ) Penton wrote:
> I have since upgraded from 3.36 to 4.10, which gets rid of the paniclog
> messages, but I don't know what is happening to the email. If an Exim
> process finds that the SMTP connection it has been passed has been
> dropped, will it merely die gracefully (without delivering the mail) or
> will it make a new SMTP connection and send the mail?
It will die without delivering the mail. But the next queue runner will
find the message and do the delivery. The difference in 4.11 will be
that Exim won't create retry data, so it won't delay retrying.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
