Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay

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Author: Florian Weimer
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To: exim-users
CC: Sam Michaels
Subject: Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay
* Philip Hazel:

> Exim implements "delay = 5m" in the most trivial possible way. It waits
> for 5 minutes. :-) I am not sure how easy it is to code "wait for 5
> minutes or until the connection goes away".


As far as I know, it's not possible to detect connection termination
without reading data from the socket. Exim would have to copy the
data to some user-space buffer.