On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David Brodbeck wrote:
> I'm not saying that what they're doing is correct, I'm just saying that in
> the real world, if you want to reliably receive mail, 30 seconds might be a
> bit long for an RFC 1413 timeout.
So change it. There's been an option for doing this in Exim for a very
long time. The default value is perhaps not as sensible as it once was,
but changing it would be an incompatible change, and I don't like doing
those without a really, really, really good reason.
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