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.
