On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> Because of the way it works, and the kinds of checks that may happen, it is
> good if in the data phase it can start feeding the message to exim sooner
> rather than later, and if I recall correctly, abandoning the message body
> before a final dot, by closing the writer will cause the message to be
> abandoned by exim. I take it there are no plans to change this behaviour.
It would be a serious violation of the RFC if this were changed, as long
as "abandon" is taken to mean "does not carry on to normal delivery". I
can imagine situations where the sysadmin wants to inspect such partial
messages, to see why the heck so many of them are occurring.
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