[Mimedefang] Problem solved?

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Thu Feb 15 11:22:58 EST 2007


David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.

This list is awesome as always!

Thanks much Dave!




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