On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> I don't think writability guarantees that a 8 KiB block can be written
> without blocking (think NFS).

Even if it could, how can you ask "will this write complete within 5 
minutes?"

> I would worry more about the unaligned writes, but I think the proper
> fix (though painful to implement) is to make Exim use wireformat in its
> spool (ie. dot-stuffed and with CRLF intact)

You lose one way or another. Storing in local format (as it does) 
requires conversion for SMTP receipt and delivery; storing in wire
format would require conversion for local receipt and delivery.


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