RE: SMTP chunking

"Neil Youngman" <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:36:02 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libesmtp
Organization Wirefast Limited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > I have had some problems that have been resolved by turning off
> > "experimental support for SMTP chunking". As this is experimental,
> > should it be turned off in the default build?
> > 
> > I've just commented out "#define USE_CHUNKING" in config.h. Is this
> > how
> > it should be done, or can I tell configure to remove this feature?
> 
> ./configure --help
> ./configure --disable-chunking
> 
> but I am sure you have figured that out but now. What's wrong 
> with the  
> chunking support by the way? Disabling it just works around 
> the problem  
> and the CHUNKING RFC seems old enough to be mature...

I think it's just a problem with a particular mail server ("Eudora
Internet Mail Server X 3.2.6"). As I'm not expecting to send large
messages, I think disabling chunking is reasonable. If I find time I
might take a closer look, but it's not a priority right now.

Neil Youngman