On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:18:37AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: >> Because of the way it works, and the kinds of checks that may happen, it is >> good if in the data phase it can start feeding the message to exim sooner >> rather than later, and if I recall correctly, abandoning the message body >> before a final dot, by closing the writer will cause the message to be >> abandoned by exim. I take it there are no plans to change this behaviour. > It would be a serious violation of the RFC if this were changed, as long > as "abandon" is taken to mean "does not carry on to normal delivery". I > can imagine situations where the sysadmin wants to inspect such partial > messages, to see why the heck so many of them are occurring.
Good - I was mainly concerned where pipes were concerned, and where the transport is therefore reliable. This is exactly the behaviour I need, because my proxy may need to tell its peer that it's rejecting the message, and I don't want it to deliver the half-finished mail to the final destination. Cheers MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/ (Please use this address to reply) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
