Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > Same problem here on several servers. Reducing the timeout helps, but > violates RFC and is simply reducing the effects rather than fixing the > issue. Is there any RFC valid way for a server to hang up on a > client, especially after a 5xx? > What if SMTP servers report a 5XX and then drop the connection? I know that's not compliant, but a real mail server would have got the 5XX and so (mainly) wouldn't retry, and a spammer would have their connection terminated.
Is there any real downside to this? (one I can think of: mailing-list broadcasts would be slowed down due to retries if invalid addresses were present...) I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have infinite resources, they can deliver us a LOT of hurt when they wish to. I can think of a lot worse things they could do - and probably will :-( -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
