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Subject: Re: smtpd_banner without ESMTP
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 14:36:25 CST

Brad Knowles <blkskynet.be> writes:

> In fact, I believe that some programs (mostly SMTP gateways to
> proprietary mail systems, such as cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, and Lotus
> Notes) will actually barf and may even hang if you give them an
> "EHLO", regardless of whether they mistakenly advertise ESMTP in
> their greeting or not.

Systems that advertise ESMTP and nuke on EHLO are not worth being paid
any attention to. And whoever it is, the who drops connection on EHLO
instead of replying "500 speak plain RFC 821, please", does not deserve
attention either.

Systems will only be fixed if they actually fail because of their
"misfeatures" (read: bugs).

Make users and clients complain!

It's no good to accept other people's (read: Microsoft's in the first
place) subversions of Internet Standards. They will believe they can do
anything to improve their position. They must be shown they're wrong,
else they will finally succeed. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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