Re: Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-23 Thread LuKreme
On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:17, Martijn de Munnik wrote: "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. There is no really good reason for a 3 second timeout in a public server. There are really good rea

Re: Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-23 Thread Sahil Tandon
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 th

Re: Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Martijn de Munnik: > > 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 s

Re: Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-23 Thread Martijn de Munnik
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,

Re: Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-23 Thread Sahil Tandon
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 (

Timeout of SMTP servers

2010-01-22 Thread Martijn de Munnik
Hi List, 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." 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 ab