On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> OK, here are two wishlist items:
I have added them to the list.
> 1. With the exiscan patch, and presumably with 4.50+, I can call arbitrary
> scanning software by specifying the full path. I can pass a directory to be
> scanned in the arguments.
>
> I'd like to be able to pass a specific file name instead of a directory.
This is something for Tom to comment on.
> 2. Exim stops after a fixed period if it doesn't have access to a specific IP
> address. I'd like to be able to specify the period in Exim's config, and even
> to specify retry intervals.
It retries 10 times at 30-second intervals. Clearly it would not be
difficult to make those numbers configurable.
> If I could specify retry intervals using the same syntax as for smtp
> retries, that would be excellent. It might be more flexibility than I
> need, but it might just be easier to reuse the code, and it might be
> better to stick with an existing syntax.
It would be *much* less work just to tweak the numbers 10 and 30.
Anything more would certainly be (IMHO) overkill for this rather special
requirement.
In the meantime, you can trivially patch 10 and 30 in the daemon.c
source if you are desperate for a solution. Look at lines 1252 and 1336.
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