On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Ask Bj�rn Hansen wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2004, at 4:40 AM, Mark Powell wrote:
>
> >   Thus there are two fixes required here.
> >   An explicit "alarm 0" to cancel the alarm, in lib/Qpsmtpd/SMTP.pm
> > (just
> > after the 'while (<STDIN>)' loop in 'sub data', I think).
>
> It's been that way at least since 0.27.1, no?

I bow to your superior knowledge :) I'm running qpsmtpd/0.29-cvs-20040817
which has this problem.

> As Devin said, unlinking the files on ALRM will just hide the problem
> -- so I don't like that.

Well they need to be unlinked somewhere? Surely no-one likes tmp filling
up with these dropped connections? Or is find ~smtpd/tmp -mtime +1 | xargs
rm -f the preferred solution?
  Cheers.

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