From: Jeremy Harris Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:11:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Docs: new-exec no longer used for continued-connection X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/d67ad6f989a7df6d20b661b9b5fbddd0acc048b3?ds=sidebyside Docs: new-exec no longer used for continued-connection --- diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 745794a2a..4abe2c9cb 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -37320,12 +37320,8 @@ See the next section for more detail about error handling. .cindex "SMTP" "batching over TCP/IP" When a message is successfully delivered over a TCP/IP SMTP connection, Exim looks in the hints database for the transport to see if there are any queued -messages waiting for the host to which it is connected. If it finds one, it -creates a new Exim process using the &%-MC%& option (which can only be used by -a process running as root or the Exim user) and passes the TCP/IP socket to it -so that it can deliver another message using the same socket. The new process -does only those deliveries that are routed to the connected host, and may in -turn pass the socket on to a third process, and so on. +messages waiting for the host to which it is connected. +If it finds one, it arranges to attempt that message on the same connection. The &%connection_max_messages%& option of the &(smtp)& transport can be used to limit the number of messages sent down a single TCP/IP connection.