Jason Haar writes:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:14:57PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > It's still wrong. At *very* least it's a violation of the SMTP
> > protocol. Where's the SMTP banner?
>
> Sorry? Did I miss an earlier message? Where does it say it's a violation?
Quoting RFC821:
One important reply is the connection greeting. Normally, a
receiver will send a 220 "Service ready" reply when the connection
is completed. The sender should wait for this greeting message
before sending any commands.
The table below lists alternative success and failure replies for
each command. These must be strictly adhered to; a receiver may
substitute text in the replies, but the meaning and action implied
by the code numbers and by the specific command reply sequence
cannot be altered.
A host that persistently refuses to run the SMTP protocol on the SMTP
port cannot be said to be running SMTP.
> I've always got some mail queued up trying to get through to sites affected
> by Qmail's ruling on how to handle MX sites that drop after a connect.
> Screwing around with /var/qmail/control/smtproutes all the time is not my
> idea of fun...
Tell them to fix their SMTP servers, don't work around their
breakage.
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