At 9:00 PM -0800 2005-01-27, Thien Vu wrote:

 The patch I've attached is a simple alarm around the SMTPDirect.py
 call into smtplib to terminate the connection after a configurable
 amount of time. Right now I have it set to minutes(10) but it's
 completely configurable via mm_cfg.py

That's very weird. The MTA should be dropping those connections after five minutes of idle time (I think that's the recommended value). Obviously, in your case the MTA is not doing this, so the client should definitely be protecting itself against being hung indefinitely.


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