On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, W B Hacker wrote: > Not clear to me why one would expect RFC compliance *from* spambots, nor owe > RFC-compliance *to* spambots. Mynheer Venema put it rather more succinctly. > > But but never mind - that wasn't the question. > > Seems the mechanism is not there now, and any such test would require coding.
It's a bit difficult to code the impossible. Bill, you seem to be missing the point that others are making about the way SMTP works. When host A makes a connection to host B, host A is considered the "client" and host B is considered the "server". Host A issues commands (typically to transmit a message), and host B responds to the commands (typically to accept or refuse the message). You are asking for ways of getting host B to issue an RSET command. This just doesn't make sense. Host B is passive in the sense that it doesn't initiate an interaction; it just responds to what host A sends it. Sure, host B could send the text "RSET" down the wires if it wanted to; the effect would be to disrupt the SMTP conversation because host A wouldn't understand it. So what could it possibly achieve? -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
