Re: [exim] Callouts that don't immediately work

Quoting Todd Lyons <tlyons@???>:

> At least on CentOS, the init script that stops and (re)starts exim,
> just stops the listening processes, allowing any existing sessions to
> continue to completion. If you tell it to stop a second time, it will
> kill all processes (i.e. those that were in the process of delivering
> and those that were in the process of receiving). Is it possible that
> when you restarted exim that there were some processes left which were
> in the process of delivery/reception that were using the old config?

On Debian systems, a dpkg-reconfigure of the exim4-config package
results in Exim being restarted. I guess it's possible that some
previously forked processes were still hanging around that didn't know
about the new configuration, but it's not as if there was a problem
sending the test messages using the new domain name, and I thought
callouts were really just about checking the local part of an address.
Besides, how come my manual callout using a telnet session to the same
host did work when the Exim-to-Exim callout did not?

Cheers,

Jaap