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-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/NewStuff13
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt5
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index f462b6b76..29b0765e8 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.131 2005/05/03 10:02:27 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.132 2005/05/03 14:20:00 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
-------------------------------------------
@@ -270,6 +270,17 @@ PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
play with."
+PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
+ process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
+ writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
+ successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
+ consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
+ treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
+ there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
+ timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
+ both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
+ the log output.
+
A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
----------------------------------------
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
index 2df222c99..f0abee45a 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.38 2005/04/28 13:29:27 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.39 2005/05/03 14:20:00 ph10 Exp $
New Features in Exim
--------------------
@@ -170,6 +170,17 @@ PH/10 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
PH/11 In a ${run expansion, the variable $value (which contains the standard
output) is now also usable in the "else" string.
+PH/12 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
+ process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
+ writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
+ successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
+ consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
+ treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
+ there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
+ timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
+ both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
+ the log output.
+
Version 4.50
------------
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt b/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt
index ba727b0bb..ac1e06a11 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt,v 1.7 2005/04/04 10:33:49 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/OptionLists.txt,v 1.8 2005/05/03 14:20:00 ph10 Exp $
LISTS OF EXIM OPTIONS
---------------------
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This file contains complete lists of four kinds of Exim option:
4. Those that can appear in the build time configuration for the Exim monitor
(Local/eximon.conf).
-This file was last updated for Exim release 4.50.
+This file was last updated for Exim release 4.51.
1. RUN TIME OPTIONS
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ timeout time 5m lmtp
1h pipe
1h queryprogram 4.00
5s iplookup 4.00
+timeout_defer boolean false pipe 4.51
timeout_frozen_after time 0s main 3.20
timezone string + main 3.15
tls_advertise_hosts host list * main 3.20