Quoting Monte Mitzelfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
> > I would think that if a 500 code were sent, then qmail would see it
> > and the email would be deferred. All queued messages are over 2Mb.
> > Looks like anything larger than that is causing hotmail to choke.
> > That's what it looks like, anyway.
>
> Only if it thought its turn was over (ie DATA ... . was finished) as far
> as I can tell from the code. They are timing me out and giving me 500
> messages when it is my turn to talk. I haven't check the RFC's yet to see
> if this turn notion is correct or not, but it's the working theory around
> the office right now.
OK got it. It's now Monday morning and I've got 15 messages with
attachments queued for hotmail, all dying in the middle somewhere.
This is quite the waste of our bandwidth, I do think.
I don't think that behavior is compliant myself, but not sure what to
do about it at this point.
Aaron
