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Re: [Asrg] MTP draft
David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com> schrieb/wrote:
> The scanning is done at the end of the DATA phase while the sender is
> waiting for the final acknowledgement. The recommended timeout here
> according to RFC 2821 is 10 minutes, so adding under a second of
> content-scanning shouldn't be a problem.
The problem is that this phase is the one vulnerable to race conditions:
If the connection breaks between accepting the message and getting the
response through to the sender, a dupe will be created. So it's
desireable to keep that period of time as short as possible.
Claus
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