Sam Varshavchik wrote at 6:09 PM (-0400) on 6/28/05:

>If Courier would do that, there's a far greater possibility that a broken 
>SMTP client would interpret a rude socket teardown of this kind as a 
>temporary error, which calls for an immediate retry.

Fair point.

>Try blacklisting their return address with badfrom in bofh.  This will 
>result in their MAIL FROM getting an error back, which should hopefully 
>share Outlook loose out of its stupor.

Okay, done.  Thanks.  Unfortunately, Outlook seems to blissfully
disregard the rejection there nonetheless.  I now see repeated (every
minute or so) attempts, and removing it causes the flood to resume. 
Well, at least this has stopped the flow for now, and should provide
them some impetus to fix their computer since they are now effectively
unable to send e-mail until they make me happy again.

-ben

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