[exim] Re: [PATCH] exim and spamd interraction.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ian Freislich
CC: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Re: [PATCH] exim and spamd interraction.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ian Freislich wrote:

> I have a patch for exim-4.50 to correct a timeout issue with spamd.
> The background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from
> a connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data.
> The exiscan spam.[ch] uses a 3600(!!) second timeout on spamd socket
> reads, further, it blindly assumes that writes won't block so it
> may never time out.


All the exiscan code is maintained by Tom Kistner. I expect that he will
respond to this message in due course.

Philip

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