Re: [ietf-smtp] chunking

Claus Assmann <ietf-smtp@esmtp.org> Wed, 16 January 2019 19:21 UTC

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> Efficiency.  Not having to do dot-stuffing means that sendfile etc.
> can be used.

If you store the message in "line format" also in the queue,
there's no need to do any conversion.