On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Martijn de Munnik wrote: > RFC2821 section 4.5.3.2 Timeouts reads > > "An SMTP server SHOULD have a timeout of at least 5 minutes while it > is awaiting the next command from the sender."
The key word is SHOULD, as opposed to MUST. > When I try to connect to an one.com mx (mx-cluster1.one.com or > mx-cluster2.one.com) I notice they will close the connection after about 3 > seconds. Why do they do this? Is anybody else using such short timeouts? That timeout does seem foolishly short, but they might have legitimate reasons that are best explained by ... them! Try pinging their postmaster. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
