Is there really no TURN command in sendmail's SMTP?

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From: Paul Vixie
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1987 17:05

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I have a mail wiz here who is implementing an SMTP mailer on his PC (I'll pause
here until the snickers and catcalls die down).  He got the sending side to 
work fairly well, but for reception of mail, he didn't want to tie up his PC
continuously while he waits for incoming SMTP connections.  Remember, the PC
is NOT a multi-tasker.

Therefore he decided to just call up the Vax sendmail and say 'TURN' to get
his mail.  He was surprised to see sendmail reply, 'command not recognized.'
I was surprised, when subsequently examining srvrsmtp.c, to see that there is
no mention of TURN in the list of known SMTP commands.

So, two questions:
	(1) does sendmail really not support TURN?
	(2) has anyone hacked this in?

Hacking it in doesn't seem to difficult -- if it hasn't been done, and I do it,
is anyone else interested in having the patches?
-- 
Paul Vixie
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Subject: Is there really no TURN command in sendmail's SMTP?
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 13:05:58 EDT
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