Re: [Asrg] 6. When To Reject

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 12:21 AM -0500 2003/09/15, david nicol wrote:

>  I'm remembering Message-IDs.  The first time I see a message
>  that I am going to 4xx after the dot for want of "magic phrase"
>  I remember the messageID.
	IMO, doing this during the SMTP conversation (before you accept 
responsibility for the message) is about the best you can hope for.

>                            If this message returns (again, the
>  body being accepted in provisional mode) before the problem
>  is dealt with (alteration of recipient's magic phrase timestamp,
>  appearance of a sender payment account) they get their connection
>  dropped on presentation of an already-seen message-ID.
	Hmm.  I think I'd be inclined to wait a minimum amount of time 
between the "first seen" and "reject message" phases.  Give people a 
little while to get their updated information out there, before you 
outright reject the message.

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