On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:52, Ron McKeating wrote:
> Now it seems that btinternet are doing spam filtering at the smtp
> transaction and if it identifies a spam it breaks the connection with a
> defer. Is this normal? we are thinking of setting up exiscan to do this
> to emails with big spam scores but we were planning to do a deny, eg a
> 550 permanent error. The way bt are doing it, the email sits in our
> queue for 8 days and we constantly re-attempt to deliver it.
Doing this is exceptionally stupid as anything obeying the RFCs will try
to redeliver the message. They should instead give a permanent error
code in response to the end of data, and maybe then close the
connection.
I am remarkably unsurprised that BT have made quite such a stupid
mistake, since their capabilities as an ISP have been shown to be
lacking in every respect.
Nigel.
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