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Re: Smail3: HELO <local.host> wrong? (was: Re: BSMTP instead of rmail)

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From: Ronald S. Karr
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 19:41
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In article <1992Aug7.074519.22912@odb.rhein-main.de> oli@odb.rhein-main.de (Oliver Boehmer) writes:
>are you sure that this is incorrect? The Smail3 script batchsmtp (used to
>send batched smtp scripts) is doing this:
>		echo "HELO <$LOCALHOST>"
>But when you use uusmtp (not batched), the <> are missing.
>
>What's the reason for this inconsistency?

The reason is that somebody (probably me) typed it in incorrectly, and
nobody made the error known to me until recently (at least not that I
remember).  This will be fixed in the next release.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!apple!veritas!tron
From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3: HELO <local.host> wrong? (was: Re: BSMTP instead of rmail)
Message-ID: <1992Aug08.194106.10041@Veritas.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 92 19:41:06 GMT
References: <14uemnINN2sg@smurf.smurf.sub.org> <1992Aug4.172405.1348@lowton.rn.com> <1992Aug7.074519.22912@odb.rhein-main.de>
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