Re: [exim] DENY vs. DROP

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Autor: Chris Edwards
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Dla: exim-users@exim.org
Temat: Re: [exim] DENY vs. DROP
| It's my understanding that DROP just drops the connection, while DENY
| issues an error and allows the connection to stay up until the
| session ends.


Hmmm - reading this thread seems to imply "drop" closes the connection
without issuing an error message.

This is not the case - both "deny" and "drop" issue the error. The
difference being "drop" closes the connection straight after.

Section 38.8 of TFM confirms this:

  drop: This verb behaves like deny, except that an SMTP connection is
        forcibly closed after the 5xx error message has been sent.