Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack

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Címzett: Russell King
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack
[ On Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 14:49:45 (+0100), Russell King wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack
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> Sounds like a good reason to use "drop" rather than "deny" if you want
> to report errors at HELO/EHLO time.


No, you really don't want to do that.

Many mailers with correct, er, compliant SMTP implementations will retry
if you drop the connection before they get a chance to say QUIT after
you've rejected their EHLO (especially those that didn't try HELO yet).

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