Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts

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Author: Magnus Holmgren
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts
On Monday 03 September 2007 12:15, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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. */


See also http://bugs.exim.org/579

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