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Subject: Re: smtpd_banner without ESMTP
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 14:30:56 CST

"Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask-postfixkampsax.k-net.dk> writes:

> Den 05-Dec-99 13:43:52 skrev Matthias Andree følgende om "Re: smtpd_banner without ESMTP":
> > "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask-postfixkampsax.k-net.dk> writes:
>
> >> 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?

I'm not sure it's worth it, but you decide on your servers. Why not
advertise ESMTP like _everybody_ does? PP, Sendmail, qmail, Exim, ... 

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