On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Robert Spier wrote:
Something changed somewhere at some point, unclear if it was on spamassassin's side or qpsmtpd's, or related to some wierd network issue, but we've started seeing something (possibly lost FIN packets, but that makes little sense) causing qpsmtpd to hang waiting for the spamassasin connection to finish. hence, a timeout :) this change will probably aggravate Qpsmtpd::Apache. Improvements welcome. I suspect we need a general timeout mechanism for plugin dispatches. Right now, we only timeout input.
I've raised this issue before - search for thread "smtp connections never timeout". Ask acknowledged this as a "pretty serious bug", but I don't think there has ever been any followup.
I don't think we want to add timeout login to each plugin - there should be a timeout within dispatch().
--- Charlie
