[exim] Connection not timing out

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Author: Michael Fischer v. Mollard
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To: Exim Users
Subject: [exim] Connection not timing out
Hello,

I've a strange problem with the connection timeout on an Exim 4.86:

> 2016-03-18 12:19:57 1agsRh-0001EC-8a <= XXX@XXX H=XXX [XXX] P=esmtps
> X=TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256 CV=no S=13566 id=XXX
> 2016-03-18 13:12:36 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 13:54:35 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 14:49:12 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 14:50:11 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 16:13:30 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 16:44:28 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 16:49:12 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 16:49:27 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 17:20:58 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 17:29:36 1agsRh-0001EC-8a Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2016-03-18 17:43:20 1agsRh-0001EC-8a SMTP error from remote mail
> server after end of data: 421 XXX Service not available - SIGTERM or
> SIGINT received - closing connection.


Ignoring that the strange behavior of the receiving side (I explicitly
killed the client, so it closed the connection as seen in the logs) I'd
expect that the sending exim quit the connection after final_timeout
(not explicitly given, so it should be 10 minutes). Is there an
explanation why the sending exim is not closing the connection? Could
this be a regression as I've never seen that before?

Regards
    Michael