Re: [exim] Exim won't scan over 8122 bytes

> > I'm running Exim 4.61 with SA 3.1.1 on OS X
>>
> > It seems like Exim won't scan anything if the mail is over 8122
>> bytes. First I thought it was encoding or something, but shortening
>> the message to around less than 8KB scans correctly.
> >
>> This problem is following me since version 4.51. The first version
>> that Exiscan was integrated (4.50) is working perfectly, but from
>> 4.51 on there were some changes made by Tom to the scan function that
>> causes this issue. When I take scan.c from 4.50 and move it to 4.61
>> to build Exim anew, everything is working, but I would love to have
>> the changes that are made after 4.50 as well. I don't want to get
> > stuck at 4.50. I want to use rate limiting which came after that.


The problem was caused by poll() function in spam.c

In Mac OS X 10.4, poll() is a real function implemented in the
kernel, however it is broken when used with sockets.