Re: [exim] Forcing exim server to close connection with clie…

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Author: Matthew Newton
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To: Avi Brender
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Forcing exim server to close connection with client
Hi,

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:48:39PM -0400, Avi Brender wrote:
>     I appreciate the information. It's not my will to break any RFCs,
> but spammers have forced us all to take extreme measures to conserve
> bandwidth, resources and our own sanity.


You are quite likely to find out that things are worse dropping
the connection or giving a 5xx after connect or MAIL - a lot of
broken servers out there don't understand and will keep retrying
immediately.

The best thing is to 5xx after each RCPT TO from what I can tell.

HTH,

Matthew


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