Re: [exim] Exim timeout?

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Auteur: Graeme Fowler
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] Exim timeout?
On 14/03/2006 16:37, Bradley Walker wrote:
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> (1) × mleatherland@??? F= R=spamcheck_director T=spamcheck: Child
> process of spamcheck transport returned 2 from command: /usr/sbin/exim
> (preceded by transport filter timeout while writing to pipe)


"transport filter timeout"... there's your clue.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch24.html

transport_filter_timeout Use: transports Type: time Default: 5m

"When Exim is reading the output of a transport filter, it a applies a
timeout that can be set by this option. Exceeding the timeout is
normally treated as a temporary delivery failure. However, if a
transport filter is used with a pipe transport, a timeout in the
transport filter is treated in the same way as a timeout in the pipe
command itself. By default, a timeout is a hard error, but if the pipe
transport’s timeout_defer option is set true, it becomes a temporary error."

However, if your spam checks take longer than 5 minutes to complete then
you've got some serious problems outside of Exim, IMO.

Graeme