On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:11:58PM -0400,
Greg Ward <gward@???> is thought to have said:
> On 27 September 2002, David Chait said:
> > I am starting to see this on occasion, which results in legitimate mail
> > being bounced, has anyone else run across this, and if so how do I get
> > around it? Exim 4.x on RH 7.3
> >
> > host amdext.amd.com [139.95.251.1]: 503 amdext.amd.com Duplicate HELO/EHLO
>
> That's weird. As I understand it, you're allowed to say HELO or EHLO as
> many times as you like, and the server should just reset itself each
> time. Is this error coming from Exim or some other MTA? Can you
> reproduce it in a manual SMTP session? If so, how many HELOs does it
> take? If the remote server is rejecting after just two HELOs, I'm
> pretty sure it's in the wrong. But if it rejects after, say, 10, it
> might be some sort of (slightly misguided) defence mechanism.
It's the remote server:
220 amdext.amd.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/AMD; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:00:00
-0700 (PDT)
ehlo pulse.fsckit.net
250-amdext.amd.com Hello 70.muca.bstn.bstnmaco.dsl.att.net [12.98.14.70],
pleased to meet you
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-XUSR
250 HELP
ehlo blah
503 amdext.amd.com Duplicate HELO/EHLO
quit
221 amdext.amd.com closing connection
> In any event, if your server is saying HELO more than once, I'm curious
> why. You might try watching the traffic between those two MTAs with a
> packet tracer like tcpdump or ethereal.
That's the more interesting question I think. Why is your server sending
EHLO/HELO twice?
Tabor
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