On 6 Jan 2006, at 13:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm running an ancient network monitoring tool called 'spong' and it's test for a working smtp service is to connect to the port, send 'quit' and parse what it receives for a '220'. With qpsmtpd as set up in the SMEserver beta, it is reporting a failure:450 Connecting host started transmitting before SMTP greeting Is there an RFC requirement that the connecting host MUST wait before sending anything?
Yes, see RFC 2821 section 4.3.1. Matt.
