Ugh, those timeouts are insane, from a different era.

Brandon


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:58 AM Renaud Allard via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 14/11/2017 16:51, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> > On 14/11/17 13:16, Vladimir Dubrovin via mailop wrote:
> >>
> >> Timeout after "." on smaller messages and in the middle of transmission
> >> on large-size messages usually mean TCP connection issues, most common
> >> reason is PMTUD blackhole router problem.
> >
> > On any size message they can be due to a too-small timeout on the
> > client end (five _minutes_ per standards, I think) and content scanning
> > done on the server end (the content not being available for scan until
> > it has all arrived).
> >
>
> Actually, it's way more than that:
> Initial 220 Message: 5 Minutes
> MAIL Command: 5 Minutes
> RCPT Command: 5 Minutes
> DATA Initiation: 2 Minutes
> Data Block: 3 Minutes. This is while awaiting the completion of each TCP
> SEND call transmitting a chunk of data.
> DATA Termination: 10 Minutes
>
> So the minimum timeout for 1 message is about 30 minutes. That said,
> many systems don't wait that long, unfortunately.
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