diff --git a/tail.go b/tail.go
index c962599..af5029b 100644
--- a/tail.go
+++ b/tail.go
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2015 HPE Software Inc. All rights reserved.
 // Copyright (c) 2013 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.
 
-//nxadm/tail provides a Go library that emulates the features of the BSD `tail`
-//program. The library comes with full support for truncation/move detection as
-//it is designed to work with log rotation tools. The library works on all
-//operating systems supported by Go, including POSIX systems like Linux and
-//*BSD, and MS Windows. Go 1.9 is the oldest compiler release supported.
+// nxadm/tail provides a Go library that emulates the features of the BSD `tail`
+// program. The library comes with full support for truncation/move detection as
+// it is designed to work with log rotation tools. The library works on all
+// operating systems supported by Go, including POSIX systems like Linux and
+// *BSD, and MS Windows. Go 1.9 is the oldest compiler release supported.
 package tail
 
 import (
@@ -450,12 +450,25 @@ func (tail *Tail) sendLine(line string) bool {
 		lines = util.PartitionString(line, tail.MaxLineSize)
 	}
 
+	// This is a bit weird here, when a users requests stopAtEof we
+	// must keep sending all lines however <-tail.Dying() will return
+	// immediately at this point so the select below may not have
+	// chance to send the line if the reader side has is not yet ready.
+	// But if StopAtEOF was not set and it is a "normal" Kill then we
+	// should exit right away still thus the special logic here.
+	earlyExitChan := tail.Dying()
+	if tail.Err() == errStopAtEOF {
+		// Note that receive from a nil channel blocks forever so
+		// below we know it can only take the tail.Lines case.
+		earlyExitChan = nil
+	}
+
 	for _, line := range lines {
 		tail.lineNum++
 		offset, _ := tail.Tell()
 		select {
 		case tail.Lines <- &Line{line, tail.lineNum, SeekInfo{Offset: offset}, now, nil}:
-		case <-tail.Dying():
+		case <-earlyExitChan:
 			return true
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/tail_test.go b/tail_test.go
index 7b9319e..cd2a0a2 100644
--- a/tail_test.go
+++ b/tail_test.go
@@ -622,6 +622,26 @@ func TestIncompleteLinesWithoutFollow(t *testing.T) {
 	tail.Cleanup()
 }
 
+func TestFollowUntilEof(t *testing.T) {
+	tailTest, cleanup := NewTailTest("incomplete-lines-no-follow", t)
+	defer cleanup()
+	filename := "test.txt"
+	config := Config{
+		Follow: false,
+	}
+	tailTest.CreateFile(filename, "hello\nworld\n")
+	tail := tailTest.StartTail(filename, config)
+
+	// StopAtEOF blocks until the read is done and in order to do so
+	// we have to drain the lines channel first which ReadLinesWithError does.
+	go tail.StopAtEOF()
+	tailTest.ReadLinesWithError(tail, []string{"hello", "world"}, false, errStopAtEOF)
+
+	tailTest.RemoveFile(filename)
+	tail.Stop()
+	tail.Cleanup()
+}
+
 func reSeek(t *testing.T, poll bool) {
 	var name string
 	if poll {
@@ -765,6 +785,14 @@ func (t TailTest) VerifyTailOutputUsingCursor(tail *Tail, lines []string, expect
 }
 
 func (t TailTest) ReadLines(tail *Tail, lines []string, useCursor bool) {
+	t.readLines(tail, lines, useCursor, nil)
+}
+
+func (t TailTest) ReadLinesWithError(tail *Tail, lines []string, useCursor bool, err error) {
+	t.readLines(tail, lines, useCursor, err)
+}
+
+func (t TailTest) readLines(tail *Tail, lines []string, useCursor bool, expectErr error) {
 	cursor := 1
 
 	for _, line := range lines {
@@ -773,8 +801,8 @@ func (t TailTest) ReadLines(tail *Tail, lines []string, useCursor bool) {
 			if !ok {
 				// tail.Lines is closed and empty.
 				err := tail.Err()
-				if err != nil {
-					t.Fatalf("tail ended with error: %v", err)
+				if err != expectErr {
+					t.Fatalf("tail ended with unexpected error: %v", err)
 				}
 				t.Fatalf("tail ended early; expecting more: %v", lines[cursor:])
 			}