Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 09/21/05 22:30

>> but you could do what you want to do. however, it's going to
>> be painful if
>> you want it to match the rfc spec...
>
> Really? Why does it need to be painful? I just need to do a 'EHLO', 'Mail
> From:' and 'RCPT to:' and 'QUIT'. It's not going to actually send an email.
> Seems simple to me. Maybe there's something else in the spec that I don't
> see?

Some mail servers can be configured to not reject the email until the end
of DATA. I know you can do this in postfix.

Although if the user is invalid, why you'd wait I don't know, but it is
possible.

-philip

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