I have the following suggestion: Everyone go to http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20020307-DM01.htm and in the feedback box, copy the text that Scott quoted into it and check no help at all, then submit.
That might get someone's attention if we flooded their feedback. John Tolmachoff IT Manager, Network Engineer 211 E. Imperial Hwy., Suite 106 Fullerton, CA� 92835 714-578-7999, ext. 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reliancesoft.com � -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail's "X1" RFC violation A number of people are aware that for years IMail's SMTP greeting has been non-RFC-compliant (RFC821 section 4.3). Specifically, mail servers are required to answer with a 3-digit code, followed by a space or dash, followed by the host name of the server ("220 mail.example.com ..."). IMail instead responds with "220 X1 NT-ESMTP mail.example.com...". Ipswitch has a new Knowledge Base article at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20020307-DM01.htm that now claims that although what they are doing does violate RFC821, it does not violate RFC2821 (which is in the process of replacing RFC821). It specifically claims that the warning that our http://www.DNSstuff.com reports is incorrect. However, there are two flaws to this logic. First, Ipswitch is wrong when they say that "RFC2821 supercedes RFC821" -- RFC821 is still the standard. RFC2821 will likely replace RFC821, but RFC821 is currently the standard. Second, RFC2821 section 4.3.1 says specifically "All the greeting-type replies have the official name (the fully-qualified primary domain name) of the server host as the first word following the reply code." There is no vagueness or ambiguity here; IMail is now in violation of both RFC821 (the standard) and RFC2821 (the proposed standard). Hopefully, now that this is becoming a bigger and bigger issue, Ipswitch will take care of this issue. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
