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

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Author: Ceri Davies
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Change of behaviour between 4.10 and 4.12
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:39:21PM +0100, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> 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


Yes, but it'll be tomorrow morning before I can do so (I need to build up
a backlog of mail).

> Do you use SSL or something like this?


Yes, this all happens with TLS.

Ceri
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