[exim] using readsocket question

My apologies if this has been covered before.. I've already
looked through spec.txt, and have searched the archives.

I'm trying to use dccifd directly with exim, using readsocket,
but not having much luck. It invariably fails with a timeout.

My question relates to how readsocket does its thing. The
dccifd man page reads:

"...The end of the body of the mail message is signaled by the
MTA half-closing the connection..."

Is that the same behavior that's described thusly in spec.txt?

"...Exim connects to the socket, writes the request string (unless it is
an empty string) and reads from the socket until an end-of-file is
read..."

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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