Arthur Hagen schrieb: > There's many things that are required according to RFCs that are > impractical on the modern day Internet. The mandated 10 minute timeout > is one of these [...] Similar for mail, where spammers in particular don't > play > nice, and may not bother about niceties like QUIT and a TCP negotiated > FIN/FIN+ACK/ACK sequence, but just drop the connection to save a few > milliseconds. To hell with the server; the spammer saving time is much > more important to the spammer.
Alright, but that does not explain why one does not honor the timeout on the *sending* side. > In either case, the correct fix (IMHO) is to thump the PIX device > repeatedly over the head of whoever decided to buy it, while chanting > "do not ever buy black box security devices". Sounds like a good idea. *nod* -thh -- ## 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/
