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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Help solving riddle with local delivery failure please...
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

> 2003-06-15 11:11:33 19RTXt-0004cQ-0N ** ruthc@???
> <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@???> R=localuser T=imap_delivery: pipe delivery
> process timed out
>
> So the question: why did exim bounce the messages straight away even though
> it had verified that the user was local?


A timeout of a pipe delivery is treated as a hard failure. I suppose
there could be an option to make it a soft failure.

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