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Subject: RE: Polite people say HELO first
From: Yanek Korff (yanekcigital.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 08:39:18 CDT

Though it sounds like what he's saying is that -his- server, when connecting
to the usa.net mailserver isn't saying HELO, and usa.net is complaining:

Trying 204.68.24.19...
Connected to mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 nmcst153 ESMTP USA.NET-MTA v34FM.0700.7.02; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:39:40
GMT
MAIL FROM: <anonymousanonymous.net>
503 Polite people say HELO first

-Yanek.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wietseporcupine.org [mailto:wietseporcupine.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:03 PM
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: Re: Polite people say HELO first
>
>
> Tomasz Szymanski:
> [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is the message I get from host for the usa.net domain.
> I figured out
> > that when I try to connect to the system by ESMTP I get
> this message. When I
> > try to youe SMTP it doesn't work at all. Can you tell me
> how to solve the
> > probelm (special routing for this domain?). You can check
> this server
> > because it's strange.
>
> Looks like this one may be hard to reproduce.
>
> If a server does not understand EHLO, then it should produce an
> appropriate reply code, then allow the client to proceed with HELO.
>
> If a server does something else, then the server does not implement
> SMTP, and they deserve to lose their mail.
>
> Wietse
>
> % host -t mx usa.net
> usa.net mail is handled (pri=10) by mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net
> % telnet mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net smtp
> Trying 204.68.24.19...
> Connected to mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx03 ESMTP USA.NET-MTA v34FM.0700.12.01; Wed, 11 Oct 2000
> 21:59:22 GMT
> EHLO spike.porcupine.org
> 250-mx03 Hello spike.porcupine.org [168.100.189.10], pleased
> to meet you
> 250-SIZE 10000000
> 250 HELP
>