On Thursday, August 11, 2005, 16:33:24, Matt wrote: > While looking into why my outbound bandwidth was spiking every 15 > minutes I found that there was a 40 MB message in the spool that was > responsible for this. > ... > The server that it was sending to supports EHLO, in fact it is also my > own server. Here's what the session states after an EHLO command: > EHLO mail.mailpure.com > 250-heimdall Hello [66.109.52.12] > 250-SIZE 20971520 > 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 > 250 OK > > My understanding of ESMTP is that if the message is more than 20,971,520 > bytes as indicated in the SIZE response, then it should not be sent. > This message was more than 41,874,785 bytes and it was sent regardless.
RFC 1870 "SMTP Size Declaration" does not require the sending machine to pay any attention to the SIZE declaration. > ... > So what is going on here? Is IMail broken? No, it would be nice if it did the comparison but its not broken if it doesn't. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
