Re: [Exim] exim 3.x treatment of failure in transport_filter

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Chris Lightfoot
Cc: exim-users, Tim Jackson
Asunto: Re: [Exim] exim 3.x treatment of failure in transport_filter
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Chris Lightfoot wrote:

> I note that there are quite a lot of places where you
> ignore EPIPE, which I think is the source of this
> difficulty (this has been changed in v4); what was the
> rationale for this?


Can't remember - it's nearly 3 years since I did the Exim 4 work.
However, every now and again I learn better/"right" ways of doing things
and so the code gets "improved"...

> > However, a general comment about transport filters that applies to Exim
> > 4 as well is that "a transport filter should not fail".
>
> ... or take a long time, apparently.


transport_filter_timeout

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