Curtis:
> Yeah, I figured it would be a pretty significant slow down for hosts
> that support it... I just wasn't sure what percentage of hosts support
> pipelining. If only 10% of hosts were using it in the first place, the
> 40% extra delivery time lost on those hosts might be managable... but,
> if you're saying that the majority of hosts do have pipelining enabled
> (it makes sense that they would), then a 40% slow down would probably be
> too expensive.
I have no statistics for ESMTP PIPELINING deployment. Many major
MTA implementation support this, but unfortunately some "security"
"firewall" implementors still make basic mistakes, and that is
probably what we are looking at.
Wietse
