On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jon Paxton wrote:
> This mail server intially welcomes a connection with "ESMTP" in the
> header, and as such exim attempts an EHLO, to which the server responds
> with just "502" (understood but not implemented). It appears that exim is
> ignoring this and continuing to try "MAIL FROM..." hence the above
> messages are appearing. The RFC states that after a 502 the client smtp
> should either QUIT or HELO.
>
> Is this an exim bug, or a bug in the remote SMTP server?
Exim should try HELO in this circumstance. Please run a test delivery
with -d to get a reflection of the SMTP dialogue to check that it is
behaving as it should.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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