On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> When their machine has been down and comes back up again, Exim, so they say,
> tries to deliver all the mail down the same connection, and they then end up
> with all their mail into one big message which they manually have to sort out.
Boggle.
> Q1) However, should this only work when talking to ESMTP capable hosts?
No. Here's the quote from RFC 821:
The MAIL, SEND, SOML, or SAML commands begin a mail
transaction. Once started a mail transaction consists of
one of the transaction beginning commands, one or more RCPT
commands, and a DATA command, in that order. A mail
transaction may be aborted by the RSET command. There may
be zero or more transactions in a session.
In this, a "transaction" is the transmission of one message.
> Q2) Is it simply that the customer's SMTP gateway too dumb and doesn't obey
> the RFCs?
Yes. However, you can limit the number of messages Exim sends down one
connection by setting batch_max in the SMTP driver.
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