} > It would appear that when your mail receiver fails in its ident,
} > it skips sending the greeting, and goes immediately to listening
} > for input without any 220 greeting.
}
} No, that is not the case. The code just doesn't look like that. I have
} made a note to do some experiments.
I have seen telnet implementation which lose the first line or so
when connecting to things in line mode - especially if the other end
is not handling telnet options. Is this whats happening here....?
[no I don't know why this happened, but if I remember rightly telnet
from NeXT systems to some boxes sometimes lost the first line]
Nigel.
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