Jonn R Taylor wrote: > > OK, but I thought that there was something that one of the RFC's said > about rejecting mail at the smtp level? Eh? > Also, it looks like they are rejecting mail, at the smtp level, based > on message body too. That's fine under the RFCs. In fact, the RFC's explicitly specify that all mailservers must support rejection at the end of the DATA phase. So, contrary to being against the RFCs, this behavior is actually specified by them. > > I am just trying to understand why an isp would develop a system like > this. Seems very stupid. Agreed. I think it's a brain-dead attempt to counter the image and pdf spams that have been so popular lately.
(You do realize there was a big surge of spam that was encoded as PDF attachments recently, right?) > > >
