On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
> We already put the mail into the spool file before returning OK to the
> DATA command, and we fork a process to deliver it.... how hard to sleep
> and delay the final ACK until the delivery has been attempted?
That just feels "bad" because of the potential for a long delay, and
also because it increases the possibility of double deliveries when
things go wrong - and increasing the delay probably increases that
possibility too.
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