davew
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:59:51 -0700
> > > >The emails are coming from "the outside world" so to speak.. they are >intended for my boss basically lol > >What's happening is people are telling me they're getting repeat messages, >because their email clients (in her case, Outlook) get to that specific >broken message, error out, and subsequently go into "email loss >prevention" mode i guess you could call it.. (IE, the server never receives >the QUIT message to properly flush the DELE'd emails) I have checked our implimentations and have found that our SMTP receive works as per RFC821 with the option to escape lines with a single dot. Our SMTP send, however, does not handle the situation. Why this would affect your user with Outlook I do not know since Outlook uses either POP3 or IMAP to receive the mails and SMTP. We have a fix in progress now for the SMTP send to match the RFC821. I'm now wondering if the fix is not sufficient. I need to check the POP and IMAP protocol stuff too now.