Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marian Neubert
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marian Neubert wrote:

> Just to clarify one thing: is it the listening daemon which temporarily
> rejects new connecions if smtp_accept_max is reached? Or is this done by
> the forked child process?


The daemon. The code has this comment:

/* Check maximum number of connections. We do not check for reserved
connections or unacceptable hosts here. That is done in the subprocess because
it might take some time. */

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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