Author: John Hall Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Message size
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 16:15, Peter Bowyer <peter@???> wrote: > Someone who knows the code will comment on the detail, but since
> there's no opportunity in the SMTP protocol for a server to abort the
> reception of the DATA portion of a message mid-stream (other than
> rudely hanging up, I guess), I'm wondering how Exim would benefit if
> it did what you're asking about.
Although there are some MTAs out there that I've seen dropping the
connection as soon as some size limit is reached. Pity that most sane
MTAs will then retry...
