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From your output, the SMTP server you are sending to is _broken_
(misconfigured, buggy, who knows). You could theoretically disable
ESMTP/EHLO, and force exim to always use normal SMTP to talk to that
host, since it appears to work on when you issue a HELO.. (Sidenote, I
telnetted to that host, issued an EHLO, and did not observe this
problem)
You might want to advise the administrators of that system that they are
broken, regardless of what else you do..
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 misfeldt@??? wrote:
> 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
> ---
> 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
> ---
>
> When I telnet to port 25 of the mailserver, a typical session looks like
> this (...look at the line after the "ehlo" command):
>
> ---
> (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"?.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
> ---
>
> 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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