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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Wakko Warner
CC: Edgar Lovecraft, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Request for comment: changing Received header timestamps
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Wakko Warner wrote:

>
> I'm not concerned about memory usage. THe box has 512mb memory. I wanted
> to view the headers myself before the message completed. I know of no way
> to do this before the entire message is received.


That's because there is nothing you can *do* at that point. The SMTP
protocol does not allow you to abort or say "no" until the complete
message (header + body) has been received.


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