On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Martijn de Munnik wrote: > On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > > > 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. > > "SHOULD" equals "MUST unless you have a really good reason". I'm > trying to figure out if somebody on the list knows a really good > reason.
*yawn*. Perhaps you will benefit from repetition: ask their postmaster, as I advised in my initial response and others have since echoed. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
