Re: [Evolution] HELO respose error: (again)

[Peter Williams <peterw ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:29, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>    Contemporary SMTP implementations MUST support the basic extension
>    mechanisms.  For instance, servers MUST support the EHLO command even
>    if they do not implement any specific extensions and clients SHOULD
>    preferentially utilize EHLO rather than HELO.  (However, for
>    compatibility with older conforming implementations, SMTP clients and
>    servers MUST support the original HELO mechanisms as a fallback.)
>    Unless the different characteristics of HELO must be identified for
>    interoperability purposes, this document discusses only EHLO.

Sadly, not all smtp implementations are contemporary or properly
configured. Dropping from EHLO to HELO is about six lines of code in
Camel, we might as well support it.

Peter

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