Re: EHLO?

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <843187765snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>, Tom Wheeley
<tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> writes

>I am currently writing a mail interface program between (bleah) Microsoft
>Internet Mail, Demons SMTP client punts, and my own little Mail Bots.
>
>Whilst doing the SMTP server, I was testing it with MS I. Mail, and the
>first thing it said was:
>
>EHLO tsys.demon.co.uk
>
>Surely this should be HELO?  Am I missing something?

It is checking if you talk ESMTP  (see the RFC index). Provided you
reply correctly (that you don't understand the command) then all will be
well.

However, I suggest you consider implementing ESMTP, since the extra
effort is not huge and there can be gains.

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richard                      richard.clayton    @    T U R N P I K E .com
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