Re: [Exim] Change of behaviour between 4.10 and 4.12

Ceri Davies wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a question, I'm afraid.
> It's more of a "this behaviour is unexpectedly different" report.
>
> I upgraded both my machine here at home and my mail hub from exim 4.10
> to exim 4.12 yesterday.
>
> I normally turn my machine off during the night (one of my fans is dying
> and keeps me awake otherwise) and then issue an etrn in the morning to have
> the mail pushed down from the hub (shaft.techsupport.co.uk in the log entries
> below).
>
> Since there are normally around 400 messages waiting, with exim-4.10 I'd
> always see log messages of the form:
> 2003-01-09 10:27:36 18WZuR-00005x-00 no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection
> and the mail queue would grow because of all the messages being queued.
>
> Today, with exim-4.12, I'm seeing this instead:
> 2003-01-10 09:49:16 SMTP call from shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214] dropped: too many nonmail commands (last was EHLO)
> and the mail is being delivered straight away.
>
> It seems that the new smtp_accept_max_nonmail option and associated actions are
> causing the connection to be closed, even though the remote end isn't up to
> anything vaguely sinister.

can you run exim in debugmode while retrieving this mails?

exim -bd -d 2>&1 | tee debuglog

Do you use SSL or something like this?