RE: [Exim] Any benefits to having exim use the SIZE command?

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: Eli
CC: 'Exim User's Mailing List'
題目: RE: [Exim] Any benefits to having exim use the SIZE command?
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Eli wrote:

> Wouldn't dropping the SMTP connection during DATA time be a violation of
> protocol?


Yes. (Not that Exim doesn't have facilities for doing dropping
connections... :-)

> Also, the server would just continue to re-send it (if it's not a
> spammer directly sending emails) since it would never receive an error
> message and think it should just retry?


Again, yes.

> Besides, if a spammer wants to tie up bandwidth, I'm sure they can find many
> many ways to do this... I doubt Exim would be the first thought on their
> minds (besides, that would be quite tracable, and all ISPs would close an
> account due to that sort of violation).


Quite.

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