diff --git a/src/client/client_send.c b/src/client/client_send.c
index fe6dcdf..1ab04dd 100644
--- a/src/client/client_send.c
+++ b/src/client/client_send.c
@@ -1456,9 +1456,12 @@ static int send_chunks_multithreaded(void* pipeline_context) {
   context->scan_stopped_early =
       context->scan_stopped_early || stop_condition_reached(&context->stop_condition);
   if (context->scan_stopped_early) {
-    log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,
-                "transfer stopped early (stop deadline); skipping --delete keep-set so "
-                "unscanned source mirrors are not deleted");
+    if (context->config->use_delete || context->config->delete_missing_args)
+      log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,
+                  "transfer stopped early (stop deadline); skipping --delete keep-set so "
+                  "unscanned source mirrors are not deleted");
+    else
+      log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING, "transfer stopped early (stop deadline)");
   } else if (context->config->use_delete && !context->early_delete) {
     /* Empty keep-set + scan I/O error must not delete the whole destination
        (the source may not be genuinely empty -- see send_files). */
@@ -1911,9 +1914,12 @@ int send_files(Config* config) {
      loss), so the late delete manifest is suppressed below. */
   scan_stopped_early = scan_stopped_early || stop_condition_reached(&stop);
   if (scan_stopped_early) {
-    log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,
-                "transfer stopped early (stop deadline); skipping --delete keep-set so "
-                "unscanned source mirrors are not deleted");
+    if (config->use_delete || config->delete_missing_args)
+      log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,
+                  "transfer stopped early (stop deadline); skipping --delete keep-set so "
+                  "unscanned source mirrors are not deleted");
+    else
+      log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING, "transfer stopped early (stop deadline)");
   } else {
     if (had_scan_io && manifest && manifest->size == 0) {
       /* A scan that hit an I/O error and produced no keep entries is ambiguous;
diff --git a/src/shared/multiprocessing.c b/src/shared/multiprocessing.c
index a77ffb6..d45b569 100644
--- a/src/shared/multiprocessing.c
+++ b/src/shared/multiprocessing.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ PipelineContextSender* pipeline_context_sender_create(Config* config, Queue* que
   context->scan_had_io_error = false;
   context->remove_source_files = NULL;
   context->early_delete = false;
+  context->scan_stopped_early = false;
   context->total_files = 0;
   context->progress_bytes = 0;
   context->total_bytes = 0;
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_stop.py b/tests/integration/test_stop.py
index 148fe87..f2bdc35 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_stop.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_stop.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class TestStopPartial:
         run returns 0 without corrupting any file."""
         source, dest = _make("partial")
         _seed_many(source, count=60, size=32 * 1024)
-        flags = ["--chunk-size", "262144", "--bwlimit", "300", "--stop-at=now+3s"]
+        flags = ["--chunk-size", "262144", "--bwlimit", "100", "--stop-at=now+3s"]
         result, _ = run_client(source, dest, flags=flags, port=shared_server.port)
         assert result.returncode == 0, \
             f"mid-transfer stop failed (rc {result.returncode}): " \