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Re: Virus emails



Wouter Verhelst dijo [Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:03:39AM +0200]:
> > I don't think so - And if so, this could break many client MTAs.
> > According to the protocol definition [1], 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt
> 
> MTAs that still stick to nothing but RFC821 are horribly outdated
> nowadays. Modern MTAs support the ESMTP SIZE command, which should take
> care of this problem.
> 
> Of course, that assumes the other end isn't lying, which probably is an
> incorrect assumption...

And I insist... Do you want to stop every mail which is (peeking at my
inbox) between 1887 and 2183 bytes long just because it might be a
virus? 

Greetings,

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