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Re: clarification re 2821, s4.1.4

2002-08-17 08:52:56



--On Saturday, 17 August, 2002 16:43 +0530 Arnt Gulbrandsen
<arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no> wrote:


What the standard says is: If the EHLO parameter doesn't match
the client, you can write scary messages in the response, and
you can tarpit the conversation (sending 100-line multiline
responses at 20 seconds per line) to slow down the presumed
spammer, and you can do lots of other things, but you can't
refuse the mail outright.

I would add "for that reason" after "outright", but, otherwise,
this seems to me to be a _very_ good summary.

    john