Re: [exim] chunking

On 17/01/17 12:29, Lena@??? wrote:
> I very much doubt that Exim will ever support automatic
> conversion of usual messages with base64-encoded attachments
> to BINARYMIME or back. Right?

Right.

> If so, what's the sense to support CHUNKING?

It's an enabler for better efficiency. If we move to a spoolfile
format matching the network format - CR,LF line terminators -
rather than Unix format, we can then avoid scanning the data both
in- and out-bound, and potentially use sendfile syscalls.

Meantime, we're making the peers that already use it more efficient.

The downside is that spoolfiles become harder to deal with using
standard Unix tools, but I don't think that's a big one.
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Cheers,
Jeremy