Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2006-08-28 02:07:06 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Robin Bowes wrote: > [...] >>> Hotmail is resending her reply to me again and again, complete with the >>> first 438Kb of the message. >> I don't see a success status being returned to hotmail at the end of the >> data phase (but that might just mean that it isn't explicitly logged) . > > I do: > > 102. 2006-08-26 14:52:55.946785500 8714 250 Queued! 1156600375 qp 8746 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However, I don't see a QUIT from hotmail, so maybe hotmail didn't > receive it. There is a rather long time (113 seconds) between the end > of the data transmission and the reply, so maybe hotmail gave up in the > meantime. RFC 2821 specifies that a client must wait for at least 10 > minutes after the final dot of data for a reply, but I wouldn't be > terribly surprised if hotmail (or any other large MSP) used a > substantially shorter timeout.
That's my interpretation of what happened - hotmail gives up after a certain period of time and re-tries later. R.
