[Gllug] helo ehlo lhlo

[Joel Bernstein]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:44:29AM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Joel Bernstein wrote:
> >server greeting string - I believe ESMTP should only be attempted to
> >servers which advertise it as a capability but in practice I think many
> >do not follow this...
> 
> Not quite.  One feature of ESMTP is that the server will advertise what 
> it's capable of doing. For example:

<snip> Er... yes. That's true. But it doesn't effect the accuracy of my
statement... I'm saying "it'll send an EHLO if the 220 banner contains
ESMTP", and you're saying "if it talks ESMTP, it tells you what other
capabilities it has" - true, but not so relevant...

/joel
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