Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Magnus Holmgren
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:09, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > A thought: as I wrote this, it occurred to me that maybe there is a way
> > that Exim can take note of having obeyed "delay", and if so, force out
> > its output buffer after it has written the next response, instead of
> > waiting until it has run out of input. If possible, that would solve
> > this issue automatically. Any views on this idea?
>
> Would it cause trouble if Exim flushed its output as soon as it encounters
> a "delay" modifier?


I suppose that's another way of doing it, but it seemed to me that it
might be better to do the flush after it has done the delay. I suspect
that it doesn't much matter which way round it is done.

But I am really interested in views as to whether doing the automatic
flush is a good idea or not.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
Get the Exim 4 book:    http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book