Re: [exim] RCPT delays and PIPELINING

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Mike Cardwell wrote:

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

I have committed a patch that implements this change, along with control
= no_delay_flush to disable it, just in case anybody wants to. A test
with Exim as both client and server displays the two behaviours nicely
(one times out, the other works).

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.