Re: draft-khanna-smtp-mail-transfer-reliability-00.txt

>       On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:07:31 -0400
>       Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> said...
> > SMTP does have problems over slow links - mostly due to the large number
> > of round-trips.  PIPELINING helps a lot for those who implement it.
> It does if the modem drops the link after 900K of a 1M message :-( .
Then by all means use the checkpoint/restart extension defined in RFC 1845.
It already exists and addresses exactly this problem.

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