Re: [EXIM] bug in exim when talking to non-ESMTP host?

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Author: Paul Mansfield
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Exim users mailing list
Subject: Re: [EXIM] bug in exim when talking to non-ESMTP host?
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> > tries to deliver all the mail down the same connection, and they then end up
> > with all their mail into one big message which they manually have to sort out.
> Boggle.


agreed, I was more than a little surprised; considering how many different
combinations of systems we receive and send to, I'd have thought we'd be
inundated with problems if this were the case. I can't remember the time we
last had a genuine problem with Exim (or at least one not of our own making :-)

> > Q1) However, should this only work when talking to ESMTP capable hosts?
> No. Here's the quote from RFC 821:


thanks very much, this confirmed exactly what I believed, however, sometimes
you just *have* to have someone confirm your sanity!


Paul


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