Re: [Exim] pipelining in outbound SMTP ?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Anand Buddhdev
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] pipelining in outbound SMTP ?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> > > exim's daemon supports pipelining for incoming SMTP calls. Does the exim
> > > SMTP client use command pipelining when sending mail?
> >
> > No.
>
> Is there any plan to add such code in? At least 3 well-known MTA's
> support pipelining in the SMTP server (qmail, exim, postfix), but
> only postfix and serialmail use it in their SMTP client, and so
> the majority of SMTP transactions don't make use of this timesaving
> feature.


I will put this on the wish list, but it would involve a lot of work.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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