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Re: Pipelining vs. multiple failure codes

2005-02-02 07:14:56

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Richard Dawe wrote:

The pipelining spec is hopelessly wooly.

Maybe it's worth doing an update to the spec, to make it clearer?

Probably. There has been a fair amount of discussion about this on the
Exim list, because Exim is unusually strict about when pipelining is
permitted (which turns out to be a useful defence against ratware).
Matthew Byng-Maddick did a good analysis of the problems and ambiguities:

http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040419/msg00287.html
http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040426/msg00007.html
(the thread got split across the week boundary)

I also found this when Googling, about pipelined close:

http://mail.adeptech.com/pipermail/sidewinder/2003-July/001145.html

Tony.
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