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Subject: Re: smtpd_banner without ESMTP
From: Anand Buddhdev (arbanand.org)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 06:57:12 CST

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 01:18:33PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:

> >> Has anybody experienced ill effects from removing the "ESMTP" part of
> >> smtpd_banner?
>
> > Why would you want to do so?
>
> To save 6 bytes of outgoing bandwidth for each SMTP connection we get?

Instead of taking out the ESMTP, why don't you remove the hostname. I
once setup an MTA to advertise

220 ESMTP

only. We still advertised ESMTP, but saved some bytes nevertheless. I
know the RFCs require the hostname to be present, but I never observed
any ill-effects of removing it. 

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