On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Mervyn Jack wrote:
> Hi I have this email message with an attached 6.8Mb file one of users is
> trying to send to cisco but it fails. Can someone tell me if our system
> could be to blame before I go ranting at cisco please?
> Remote host proxy1.cisco.com [192.31.7.88] closed connection after
> sending data block
Very common (and stupid) way of dealing with large mail, just close the
socket. Pagemart's e-mail-to-pager gateway at pagemart.com does the same
thing.
Of course just closing the socket means the sender will try again and
again, and eventually bounce the message with a very unhelpful error
report.
Tom
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