[Mimedefang] Problem solved?

[David F. Skoll]

Ben Kamen wrote:

> So, out of curiousity, does anyone have handy some RFC reference that
> says when a mail server delivering mail should be timing out waiting for
> a response for RCPT TO: from the remote server??
> A minute seems awefully short these days.

RFC 2821, section 4.5.3.2.  It recommends 5 minutes for RCPT.  However,
the recommendations are SHOULDs, not MUSTs, so the weasly ISPs with
too-short timeouts can claim RFC compliance.

Regards,

David.