Marc Sherman wrote:
> Bill Hacker wrote:
>
>>
>> Agree that as the general case - with a caveat [1].
>>
>> - but what I am curious about here is if that (or some other setting)
>> has the effect of forcing the above deliveries one-per-connect.
>>
>> Which could/would change the (other) behavior under discussion. i.e
>> insure they were flagged individually, not 'en bloc'.
>>
>> -I think.... ;-)
>
>
> Nope, multiple RCPTs per MAIL is part of base SMTP (rfc (2)822), not the
> PIPELINING extension (rfc 2920). PIPELINING allows things like sending
> the MAIL FROM and multiple RCPT TO commands all in one TCP packet
> without waiting for a response between each command, while base SMTP
> requires that the server reply to the MAIL FROM and each RCPT TO before
> the client sends the next command.
>
> - Marc
>
Thanks .. that - and the odd-man-out Hotmail incident,
is why I was unsure as to how Exim was/would (actually) implement such.
RFC's not being directly executable code... AFAIK ;-)
