In the case of an attack he would use the SMTP HELO protocol so he wouldn't need to send size. In that case he would just retry wherever the message was cut off at either 10 or 100 MB, so no difference there either.
IMail speaks ESMTP so there should never be a delivery attempt on a large message where an ESMTP receiver needs to drop the connection after it receives a certain size.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This whole question applies only to pre-ESMTP MTAs. Hotmail should 554 the > >message at the beginning of the transmission and avoid both the 10 and 100 > >MB blocks. > > An attacker wouldn't send his message SIZE along, would he? 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/
