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Ben KennedyJun 28, 2005 2:15 pm 
Juri HaberlandJun 28, 2005 2:38 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJun 28, 2005 3:11 pm 
Randall ShawJun 28, 2005 3:32 pm 
Ben KennedyJun 29, 2005 8:47 pm 
Martijn LievaartJul 2, 2005 4:13 pm 
Flavio StanchinaJul 18, 2005 8:25 am 
Martijn LievaartAug 3, 2005 12:04 am 
Subject:Re: [courier-users] Putting a limit on MSA floods?
From:Martijn Lievaart (m@rtij.nl)
Date:Aug 3, 2005 12:04:09 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Flavio Stanchina wrote:

Martijn Lievaart wrote:

It's not just broken smtp clients. A rude socket teardown is rightly interpreted by MTAs as a temporary error. So they try again [...]

Isn't there a way to return a permanent error in the middle of the message? IIRC there isn't, but you certainly know SMTP stuff better than I do.

No, unfortunately, there is not. The data fase of smtp has no way for the receiver to stop the sender in midway. And yes, this causes exactly the problem you are seeing.

M4