At 15:06 2/3/2004, Bill Healy wrote:
>The only way to know if you have a virus or spam message is to look at
>the content in the DATA section of the transaction, and at that point
>it's to late to reject the message as I recall.

You can reject at any point in the protocol session - even after receiving 
the DATA block.

Of course, rejecting as early as possible in the protocol session is best, 
because it saves your bandwidth - but there is no RFC requirement to reject 
prior to DATA... 


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