Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: W B Hacker
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, W B Hacker wrote:

> Given the (potentially) torturous nature of a pipelined 'session' will it not:
>
> - take a lot more coding and testing in Exim to insure nothing breaks than the
> gain may justify?


No. It can do no harm to flush the output, just (perhaps) degrade
performance. There is nothing to stop a server doing the flush always,
though that defeats the idea of PIPELINING.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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