On 30/10/16 21:22, Bill Cole wrote: > On 30 Oct 2016, at 16:57, Jeremy Harris wrote: > >> 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. > > Comments in a MTA's source can say anything. There is not now and never > has been a generally accepted SMTP specification that [...]
Indeed, it was de-facto not de-jure. -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
