On 12/01/16 16:20, Mike Brudenell wrote: > OK, so this begs the question that if the RFC says a client MUST issue a > HELO/EHLO before a mail transaction, then shouldn't Exim refuse to accept > MAIL FROM until a HELO/EHLO has been received *and* accepted?
Exim does things that are not strictly RFC-conformant because there are peers out there that need to be communicated with, which would otherwise not be. Reading the comments in the code can be enlightening. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
