[OT] sendmail 8.x.y not ESMTP PIPELINING/reading -bs BSMTP input

Matthias Andree (mandreedosis.uni-dortmund.de)
24 Nov 1999 02:56:17 +0100

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wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes:

> Unfortunately, the widely-used sendmail SMTP server cannot support
> ESMTP command pipelining without major surgery. Sendmail fork()s
> one child per MAIL FROM that exits after "." or RSET, and the child
> would read too much input because of stdio buffering.

Thanks for this compact explanation, that's the one I had been looking
for. I was aware of sendmail fork()s, but did not take stdin buffering
into account.

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