The manual says that for the lmtp transport (describing the timeout paramater):
"The transport is aborted if the created process or Unix domain socket does not respond to LMTP commands or message input within this timeout" What exactly does "abort" mean here? In particular, does it mean the message will be retried later? Does it mean some other transport will be tried? I am asking because I want to backup the Cyrus server that handles the lmtp requests, and shutting it down would help ensure that the disk files are in a consistent state. When exim discovers there is no lmtp server to talk to, I want it to hold messages and retry, rather than failing the messages and bouncing them. I used both index and search on "abort" in the info'ized manual, but didn't turn up anything definitive. Neither did a search of the archives. I expect the behavior I want is the way exim operates, but I'd like to be sure. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
