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Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0 ???

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Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> wrote:

> Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2012-10-27, Solbu wrote:
> 
> > >> I wanted to know why the firmware programmers would have used
> > >> this string for their ehlo greeting
> > >
> > > They use it because more and more SMTP servers require a
> > > HELO/EHLO greeting before they accept any email.
> > 
> > Huh?  HELO has been mandatory with SMTP since the 1980s.
> 
> You both missed the entire point of my original question.
> 
> So I will repeat it. 
> 
> ===========
> Recently I've been trying to figure out why a Trendnet TV-IP110w
> IP-camera was not able to connect to my SMTP server to send mail.
> 
> I performed some packet analysis and found that the camera was greeting
> the server with this:
> 
>   ehlo MAPI1.0
> 
> And my server responds with this:
> 
>   501 Invalid domain syntax
> 
> In looking at the ehlo specifications, the greeting is supposed to
> contain something that looks like a domain-name.  So I believe the
> string "MAPI1.0" is being rejected by my server on that basis.
> ============
> 
> So you see, it's not that this camera wasn't generating a "ehlo"
> greeting.
> 
> The issue is the "MAPI1.0" part of the ehlo greeting that my SMTP server
> apparently doesn't like, and it doesn't seem to like it because
> according to SMTP standards "MAPI1.0" is not a valid domain-name.
> 
> Comments?

Yes, you're a lamer.

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Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-12 19:53 -0400
  Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Solbu <solbu@solbu.net.ugyldig> - 2012-10-27 03:31 +0200
    Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-27 18:06 +0000
      Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-27 20:14 -0400
        Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-28 14:07 +0100
          Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-28 12:35 -0400
            Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-28 20:49 +0000
        Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-29 22:08 +0000
  Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-10-28 22:17 -0400

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