OTOH, a mailserver that has a 20MB E-mail to send to Hotmail will (assuming this report is correct) get cut off at 5MB, then try again later. At 96 retries, that would be 480MB of data transfer rather than 20MB, harming both Hotmail and the sender.not really. If the msg size limit is 5 MB, it serves no protective purpose to accept a 20 Mb msg fully and THEN reject it.I don't know if this is happening, but this was Terry's suggestion. It's a ridiculous implementation, if you ask me.
For an operation the size of Hotfail, it's essential to defend like that.
So I would think that it would be best for Hotmail to drop data after 5MB into the bit bucket, and then after the 20MB was sent, give a 5xx error code.
-Scott
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