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what to say on timeout?

2004-01-03 18:35:25

When a SMTP server breaks a connection to a SMTP client because of long inactivity (as suggested in RFC 2821 Section 4.5.3.2), should it break the connection silently? or should it first send a 451, 554, or some other reply code?

Thanks,
Rich Hammer


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