Hi Sabahattin,
At 13:08 18-06-2007, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
It would indeed, if it is true that (sensibly-minded) clients choose to
abort a long-running transaction. That might be a security advantage to
avoid a DoS; I'd certainly recommend people set an upper limit on
lingering connections that aren't actually taking mail, just in case some
That limit can be quite short nowadays to avoid tying server
resources. Playing SMTP tricks increases the probability of losing
valid mail. Your proposal is interesting. However, it makes
debugging more difficult. That in itself is a significant
disadvantage in my view.
Regards,
-sm