Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING

* on the Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:54:21PM +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

>> But I am really interested in views as to whether doing the automatic
>> flush is a good idea or not.
> I am also in favour of the flush-before-delay. The client will get the
> responses for the previous commands, so he will have at least that, and
> the server will not appear to be completely stuck. The behaviour is more
> "natural", I'd say, and it's better for debugging.

imo, the expected behaviour would be for it to auto-flush, so I vote
to go ahead with this change.

> We could introduce modifiers for the delay keyword (like "delay =
> 10s/noflush"), if somebody wants the old behaviour, but it's probably
> not worth it.

If you're only using very short delays and autoflushing, it half defeats
the point of pipelining come to think of it. Perhaps, there should be a
control to enable/disable it?

Mike