[RFCI-Discuss] multi-MAIL commands appearing in the same mail-transaction?

[Alan Brown]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, mouss wrote:

> but just ignoring a previous MAIL command is risky. Imagine a bogus
> client trying to do two transactions simultaneously (a thread
> programming bug):

And the potential for mail to end up in the wrong inbox if it is
accepted.

> If an error is sent, chances are that the client will QUIT.

If the client is that badly messed up, then sending an error code is the
only option which makes sense.