[Mimedefang] Problem solved?
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Feb 15 11:17:44 EST 2007
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.
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