On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:59 +0200, Sean Murray wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have and odd error from 2 mail servers (that i know of)
> mail.waterfront.co.za - XMAIL
> mail.colorsfruit.com - exchange server.
>
> Telnet transcript is attached at the bottom
>
> Both these servers respond with
> 500 Command line too long
> and then closes the connection.
> with a perfectly valid : EHLO silence.tlabs.ac.za
>
> These servers only accept 1 character after EHLO
> if i do a plain EHLO (no domain name after) on a telnet session i get the
> correct response of 502 and can then happily continue with a HELO silence.tlabs.ac.za
Looks like this problem:-
http://tinyurl.com/azmyn
Its sort of impressive, that when you get a bug with Exchange, everyone
else goes out of their way to work round it because you know that the
dumb schmucks with the bug will not be amenable to fixing the problems.
Nigel.
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