[Exim] ignoring ehlo error

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Author: misfeldt
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] ignoring ehlo error
I just quit with sendmail and installed exim instaed. The reason were
problems when sending mail from my private net to my isp's smtp-server. Now, after
messing some time with those problems I found out the following:

When I try to send mail to the mail relay I get the errormessage
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Malformed SMTP response from smtp.kielnet.net [194.163.254.14] after EHLO
ppp356.kielnet.net: \002\025\034\210.kielnet.net250-mail.kielnet.net
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When I telnet to port 25 of the mailserver, a typical session looks like
this (...look at the line after the "ehlo" command):

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(Telnet to smtp.kielnet.net:25 )
Trying 194.163.254.14...
Connected to smtp.kielnet.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.kielnet.net ESMTP service (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1 (built Aug
                                    9 1999))
[sent]
helo 


250 mail.kielnet.net

[sent]
ehlo ppp356.kielnet.net

`D"à.kielnet.net250-mail.kielnet.net
250-PIPELINING
250-HELP
250-EXPN
250-ETRN
250-DSN
250-SIZE

[sent]
help
214-This SMTP server is a part of the Netscape Mail Server system.  For
214-information about the Netscape Mail Server, please see
                           http://www.netscape.com
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Could this behavior of the server be the reason for my inability of sending
mail and is there a way to make exim ignore this malformed response?

Your help is warmly welcome...
Claus

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