Autor: Ian Eiloart Data: Para: exim-users Asunto: Re: [exim] Re: [exiscanusers] Exiscan for Exim-4.50?
--On March 3, 2005 09:10:04 +0000 Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>> OK, here are two wishlist items:
>
> I have added them to the list.
> Thanks.
.
. >
>> 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.
Fair enough. I'm not even sure I can even think of a reason for doing anything
more complex.
> 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.
