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Re: [Asrg] SICS

2004-12-26 00:24:12
The message headers and body are part of the message itself, as
part as SMTP is concerned.
Sure, but that doesn't mean that the connection can't be dropped
DURING the body transfer.
See the RFCs.  It does mean exactly that.

Well, it doesn't *mean* that, exactly.

I'm not sure which RFC specifies that the server is not permitted to
drop the connection if it feels like it, if indeed there is such a
specification (I can't recall one offhand, but I'm willing to
tentatively believe that there is one).  However, the client must be
prepared to handle it if it happens; servers do crash.

It also seems like no less reasonable a thing to do than a lot of the
other things that are done when dealing with spam and associated
issues, including a number that violate the RFCs (such as non-relay
hosts dissecting message headers, or my own "half-open hell" tactic for
dealing with hosts that retry too fast).

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