Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING
* on the Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:05:04PM +0000, Mike Cardwell wrote:

>> 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?


RFC2920 states in section "3.2. Server support of pipelining" :

(2)   SHOULD elect to store responses to grouped RSET, MAIL FROM,
      SEND FROM, SOML FROM, SAML FROM, and RCPT TO commands in an
      internal buffer so they can sent as a unit.


It's only a "should" rather than a "must", but doing the auto-flush kind
of goes against this.

Mike