Re: [exim] duplicate messages

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: Ian Eiloart
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] duplicate messages
Hello,


Ian Eiloart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen some message duplication, sending messages to another site. I'm
> running Exim 4.64, and they're running 4.43
>
> It looks to me as if the problem is that they're accepting messages without
> sending the final ACK post data. For example, I have a log entry like this:
>
> I've obfuscated, because I'm not asking about the remote site.
> 2008-04-15 09:32:21 JZCXWF-000G1T-0W ==
>     foo@???
>     R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp_rew
>     defer (60): Operation timed out: SMTP timeout
>     while connected to example.com [x.x.x.x]
>     after end of data (1189 bytes written)

>
> I have a couple of questions about how to interpret this:
>
> 1. I think the post-data timeout is 10 minutes. IE, ten minutes after
> sending the message data, I haven't had a response. Is that correct?
>

That's what RFC recommends, but it may be configured another way.


> 2. Would the time stamp on this message correspond to the start or the end
> of the ten minute timeout period?
>
>


AFAIK, this is the end of the timeout period.