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Author: Paul D. Robertson
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To: Robert Black
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: ouch
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Robert Black wrote:

> > As far as those users are concerned, this is a bug in our new mail
> > system. After all, it "worked" before, right... ;-)
>
> Hmm, how about... if a site doesn't understand lowercase helo try it in
> uppercase and if that works wrap the mail in a MIME warning message about the
> receiving mailer not being RFC-821 compliant... tempting, very tempting :-)


If it's broken so that it doesn't understand 'helo', you're going to tax
it with MIME? Hell with that, UUencode exim and mail it to postmaster :)

Paul
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