Re: ouch

Philip Hazel writes:

| ... and if it doesn't like upper case try "Helo" and "HeLo", etc? :-)
| Maybe even "Hello?". Blech.

And of course you get a 250 response code for every SMTP command with
our friendly vendor's SMTP server. Cheers!

| For the record, I learned of another non-compliance today: some mailer
| was sticking dots on the ends of addresses, causing Exim to barf; the
| sysadmin concerned is however, not trying to persuade me to fudge up
| Exim to handle this, but muttering at the vendor instead.

If I was the sysadmin, it would be running a mailer which interworked
with the rest of the Internet, and a different operating system :-)

Martin