On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:43:59PM +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> Does anyone know if multiple 220 responses can cause hiccups for other
> SMTP servers?
RFC2821 implies (in section 4.2) that the initial greeting should be a
single line; only replies to commands may be multi-line.
> 220-ns2.wananchi.com ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:45:30 +0300 [Exim-3.33]
> 220-Welcome to Wananchi Online's ESMTP Server.
That's wrong anyway; the last line in a multi-line response is supposed
to begin with "220 " i.e. a space, not a hyphen. (RFC2821 section 4.2.1)
Dave
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