David MacQuigg wrote:
I just did an experiment with Sendmail using telnet as the client. If
I send one line of data, then pause, Sendmail waits 10 minutes then
disconnects with no message to telnet. There is no timeout in telnet,
so it just sits there until I force a disconnect on that end.
I'd expect most MTAs to do that. If they get data, then nothing, they
will eventually timeout - the time may vary, but they'll all timeout.
The client is then expected to retry.
That has nothing to do with a 'never ending' connection of zillions of
MB of data - which was where we started. If you drop a connection
because you don't like it for whatever reason, you are just asking for a
retry, which achieves nothing if you are trying to stop the connection.
