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Author: Martin Cooper
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To: Martin Hamilton
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: ouch
> Looks like we might want to send those SMTP commands in caps ...
>
> % telnet burleigh smtp
> Trying 158.125.18.2...
> Connected to burleigh.lut.ac.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 Burleigh.lboro.ac.uk Simple Mail Transfer Service Ready
> Helo litterbug.lut.ac.uk
> 250 Unknown Command
> HELO litterbug.lut.ac.uk
> 250 Burleigh.lboro.ac.uk
>
> No prizes for guessing the vendor


Not an implementation of MicrosoftSMTP(tm) is it? :-)

> Martin


Hmm, I have wondered for a bit why Smail (presumably Exim does it
because it's based loosely on Smail) refers to SMTP as smtp in
"Received:" headers since it's an acronym, and why it uses those
rather odd style message-ids that look like gibberish.

Anyone throw any light on this?

Martin
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