Re: [exim] exim processing

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Richard P. Welty
CC: Exim users mailing list
Subject: Re: [exim] exim processing
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Richard P. Welty wrote:

> for messages received via SMTP, does exim simply for a process for
> delivery, or does it explicitly exec a new process?


It forks. After all, there may be another message arriving on the same
SMTP connection.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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