RE: [Exim] frozen after connect timeout

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, A. Wik wrote:

> Yes, I asked nearly the same question. What I'd like to know
> is if there's any logic to this behaviour, or if it's a bug.
> It doesn't (thank goodness) happen every time a connection
> attempt times out.

that has been discussed before; it's most probably a bug, likely to be
a leftover alarm() somewhere. its pretty easy to work around it,
though - just set auto_thaw < timeout_frozen_after (and have some
queue runners running the queue, every now and then) . it rarely ever
happens twice to the same message on my lightly loaded boxes.

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