>Another perfectly good theory shot to hell. I sent the program
>'socket' to Alan Larson. This is a program that just opens a socket
>connection and attaches it to stdin/out. So you can't blame this on
>telnet:
>
> loren:1707% date ; socket -c flyhalf.ctd.comsat.com smtp ; date
> Wed Apr 24 11:37:25 PDT 1996
> 421 flyhalf.ctd.comsat.com: SMTP command timeout - closing connection.
> Wed Apr 24 11:42:28 PDT 1996
> loren:1708%
Perhaps exim isn't flushing the 220 message.
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Ronald S. Karr
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