* Philip Hazel:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> There's another option: callout is often used in contexts where Exim
>> has to reply to a client within a specific time interval. Maybe the
>> session timeout should be set to this amount of time (or three
>> quarters of it)?
>
> Exim does not know the timeout that the client has set, so how could it
> do this?
It should make sure that it finishes within the minimum timeouts
specified in the RFC.