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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
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Subject: smtpupd-09 still prohibits disk failures
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If an SMTP client is in the middle of sending a message, and is unable
to read the next portion of the message from disk, it has to ruthlessly
close the connection.

> The sender MUST NOT intentionally close the transmission channel until
> it sends a QUIT command and receives the reply

This requirement is a reliability disaster. See above.

I've brought this up before. There's no dispute. Why hasn't the document
been fixed?

---Dan