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Re: retry question

2008-08-11 08:20:28

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Paul Smith wrote:

C: RCPT TO: user1
C: RCPT TO: user2
C: DATA
S: 450 server too busy
S: 450 server too busy
S: 354 I'm slightly broken, but that's OK because RFC 2920 says how to handle 
me
C: CRLF "." CRLF
S: 550 no recipients

A non-pipelining client wouldn't have sent 'DATA'.

That scenario is (surprisingly) also allowed by RFC 2821, i.e. SMTP
without PIPELINING. See the bullet points about failures of the DATA
command in section 3.3.

Tony.
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