David, > > I know it's unkosher to be filling the buffer before you've > > received DATA, but I know sendmail, qmail, exchange, and probably others > > handle this ok. I'll file this in bugzilla. > > It's not only unkosher, it's illegal. See RFC 2821 section 4.3.1 > (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) and RFC 2920 > (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2920.txt). Those rules are important to me as > someone who intends to implement SMTP with nonblocking IO. There's > nothing > wrong with servers that happen to accept the illegal input, but clients > "MUST NOT" send it.
:) See my comment on the bug. --Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
