nginx undocumented directives

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Feb 5 16:39:34 UTC 2018


Hello!

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 05:49:28PM +0200, Gena Makhomed wrote:

> On 28.12.2017 15:17, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> 
> >>> smtp_client_buffer
> >>> smtp_greeting_delay
> >>
> >> There are no notes of why these aren't documented.
> > 
> > I guess the reason is that mail documentation is mostly
> > contributed, and was never seriously considered by the
> > documentation project.
> > 
> > The smtp_client_buffer directive is identical to
> > imap_client_buffer, but for the smtp module.
> > 
> > The smtp_greeting_delay directive allows introducing an artificial
> > delay before sending an SMTP greeting, and rejecting clients who
> > fail to wait for a greeting before sending commands.
> 
> One month later:
> 
> directives smtp_client_buffer and smtp_greeting_delay
> 
> still not documented.

That's how opensource works.  If you want something to happen, you 
have two basic options:

1. Wait for someone to do it.

2. Do it yourself.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/


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