On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:16:39 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
>
>> Without having had a look at Exim's source code from my observations it
seems
>> that there aren't any provisions in the source for a timeout between
messages
>> in BSMTP. Shouldn't there be a (configurable) timeout that forces closure
of
>> the session after a certain time has run out without a further message
having
>> been received? Can you (Phil?) confirm this?
>
>smtp_receive_timeout applies to BSMTP as well as to other forms of SMTP.
>I have just tested this.
Is this also true for 4.10? Remember that I'm still running this version.
>> forked delivery process 32453
>> Process 32406 is ready for new message
>> smtp_setup_msg entered
>>
>> At this point the Exim process seems to stall.
>
>The default for smtp_receive_timeout is 5 minutes. You can change it
>with -os on the command line.
I've changed it since a looooong time to "smtp_receive_timeout = 1m" in the
config file -- it simply doesn't help.
>> It's not very easy to debug this kind of problem since you can easily
become
>> confused with debugging output from the different Exim processes.
>
>Add -pid to your -d options (from Exim 4.11).
I guess you mean "+pid?" Anyway, as I don't (yet) run 4.11 this won't help me
at this moment.
Thanks,
Ralf
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