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RE: Cancelling Mail Request

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:11:34 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Nazim Oztahtaci wrote:

> Actually when I read about this functionality on the previous
> implementations, I see that it is close to what we are doing. When I look
> the packages from Wireshark, I see that when we do not send any QUIT message
> to server, we close the connection in the middle and as I know if that
> happens Smtp server should skip this mail request. Am I right?

I wouldn't be surprised if there are servers who would send it off anyway, but
the SMTP spec in RFC 2821 section 4.1.1.10 for QUIT is quite clear:

    The sender MUST NOT intentionally close the transmission
    channel until it sends a QUIT command and SHOULD wait until it
    receives the reply (even if there was an error response to a previous
    command). If the connection is closed prematurely due to violations
    of the above or system or network failure, the server MUST cancel any
    pending transaction

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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