On 10 Dec 1999, Monte Mitzelfelt wrote:
>
> It looks like Hotmail may be cutting off messages that exceed their size
> limit, by issuing a 500 error in the middle of the DATA session. This
> doesn't seem right to me, but qmail doesn't seem to see it. This backs up
> my clients outbound queue, not too bad, but worse that I'd like.
>
> It does issue a SIZE if you say EHLO to it. Are there any patches for
> SIZE? What's the right answer here.
The right answer is to firewall all incoming and outgoing mail from
Hotmail, until they fix their mail server to comply with RFC 821.
