[exim] Re: Errors in transport filters

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Szerző: Felix Schwarz
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Tárgy: [exim] Re: Errors in transport filters
Philip Hazel wrote:
> This is the ChangeLog entry to which I was referring:
>
> PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
>       process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
>       writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
>       successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
>       consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
>       treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
>       there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
>       timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
>       both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
>       the log output.


I don't think that the behavior I'm seeing is related to this as the
filter process does not time out. Instead it exits with an error code
after 1-2 seconds.

If you think that this behavior may be fixed in 4.60, I will test my
configuration with the latest version of Exim.

fs