On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Tom wrote:
> Some MTAs (ex. Zmailer) attempt strict RFC821 checking. Telnet to
> nic.funet.fi, port 25 and try a "rcpt to:<someguy.@nic.funet.fi>". It
> does an immediate rejection. Another related point: Exim seems to have a
> problem with the multi-line 501 response to "rcpt to" and interprets it as
> a timeout problem and retries the message later. I haven't fully
> investiagated this yet.
It has no problem with 2 lines, at least. This is what I got when I
tried:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:
ph10@cus:
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:
<ph10@???>:
host ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.6]:
501-this is line1
501 this is line 2
I'm off for the weekend...
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