On Fri, 7 May 2004, Noel Jones wrote: > At 12:27 PM 5/7/04, Mike Lambert wrote: > > >The advantage is sending a 5xx reject instead of a 2xx "message accepted > >for delivery" to the connecting mta. It is now up to the connecting mta > >to deal with the message. > > > >It does reduce bandwidth if you reject before receiving the whole > >message. I don't know if clamav does this, but if it can, it should. > > No, it won't save bandwidth. > Once the client sends DATA and you reply "go ahead", you must wait for the > DOT to 550 them. If you break the connection before all the data has been > sent, even if you send a response code the client will see a dropped > connection and (correctly) attempt to send the whole message again.
Hmmm, appears to have been a bad assumption on my part. Thank you the correction. Mike Lambert ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
