Re: [exim] SMTP connections from *.client.comcast.net

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Author: Tony Finch
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CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP connections from *.client.comcast.net
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Martin Nicholas wrote:

> I have a problem using 4.34 under Debian-stable(2.4.27-0).
> Connections from Comcast DSL lines are never terminated.
> The connection HELOs (including the usual lies in
> some cases) ok but the Helo ACL never runs, or at least nothing is written to
> the log which should (in my system) always be the case. Nothing more is
> heard. These child processes then hang around forever; neither stopping the
> daemon nor waiting for the keepalive timeout, kills them.


Are you running exiwhat frequently? If so this might be related to
this change in Exim 4.42

 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
    when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
    restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.


Tony.
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