At 09:55 AM 09/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:
Thanks Philip, I'll test it and let you know the results.
-- Steve
>On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Stephen Fulton wrote:
>
> > My NFS store is experiencing occassional overloads, and when this occurs
> > simultaneous with a local mailbox delivery by Exim, that process does not
> > time out, essentially hanging. I have worked on the NFS server and mail
> > server client to ameliorate this as best as possible until I get a new
> > NetApp, but in the meantime I would like to know if Exim has the ability to
> > time out when a delivery takes too long (ie. longer than 60 seconds). Is
> > it possible?
>
>There is no facility for timing out local deliveries to files, as I
>never considered this possibility. However, it is something that would
>be very easy to add, because the common "write message" code has timeout
>facilities for other forms of delivery.
>
>If you have compiled Exim from source, you could try the following hack:
>
>At the start of the appendfile_transport_entry() function, around line
>1199 in src/transports/appendfile.c in the 4.30 code, insert the line
>
>transport_write_timeout = 60;
>
>I have not tested this (hard to find a way to test it, in fact!) but it
>might just do the trick.
>
>
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