On 30/10/16 20:31, Bill Cole wrote: > On 30 Oct 2016, at 11:45, Jost Krieger wrote: >> without the magical word ESMTP, no one is allowed to use EHLO. > > You've invented a non-existent rule. I hope no one has made the blunder > of enshrining that non-rule in code or teaching it as fact.
According to Exim source comments, having ESMTP in the banner was a convention as of 1998 (to advertise the capability) but by 2000 it was deemed reasonable to always attempt EHLO first. -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
