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Subject: Re: smtpd_banner without ESMTP
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 16:41:35 CST

At 9:36 PM +0100 2000/3/8, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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.

        Theoretically, yes. Practically, we have real-world customers
who'd like to get real-world mail to real-world recipients, and if we
can't get their mail to their recipients, they'll leave and go to
another ISP. Do this often enough, and people start noticing. 

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