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| From | Mike Scott <usenet.14@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mail.misc |
| Subject | Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0 ??? |
| Date | 2012-11-13 09:45 +0000 |
| Organization | Scott family |
| Message-ID | <k7t4sd$sil$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <5078AD79.AADEC93F@Man.com> <k71gt7$6pq$1@obelix.informatik.uni-kiel.de> <uP5ls.35245$ck7.32607@uutiset.elisa.fi> <50951FB7.D87E73F2@Man.com> <6q2dnQ0DMrliOAPNnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications> |
On 10/11/12 19:07, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article <50951FB7.D87E73F2@Man.com>, Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> wrote:
>> Thor Kottelin wrote:
>>
>>>>> Did RFC 2821 exist in 2000 / 2001?
>>>>
>>>> RFC 2821
>>>> wasn't a standard back then, so RFC 821 applied.
>>>
>>> This is still the case. RFC 821 is a standard (part of STD 10,
>>> together with RFCs 974 and 1869), RFC 2821 is a proposed standard
>>> and RFC 5321 is a draft standard.
>>
>> So my Trendnet TV-IP110w IP-camera, which when sending e-mail begins the
>> SMTP session by sending "ehlo MAPI1.0", is not adhering to accepted or
>> universal SMTP conventions.
>>
>> And as pointless as it is, my 12-year-old Post.Office SMTP server
>> software is correctly terminating the session with a "501 Invalid domain
>> syntax" error.
>
> Incorrect.
>
> The HELO/EHLO string is NOT _required_ to be anything. It SHOULD (not MUST)
> be the FQDN of the connecting machine.
Is that right?
From rfc2821 (yes, I know, superseded) section 3.6:
"
- The domain name given in the EHLO command MUST BE either a primary
host name (a domain name that resolves to an A RR) or, if the host
has no name, an address literal as described in section 4.1.1.1."
>
> A 'liberal' mailserver should/would accept that string.
Agreed. the rfc seems overly prescriptive.
>
> Many/most mailservers do enforce a requirement that the string be a _valid_
> domain name -- above what the RFCs require -- as an anti-spam measure, and
> that string is NOT valid a domain name, either today or when your software
> was written.
>
> There should be an option in Post.Office to turn off that check -- I don't
> know Post.Office well enough to say what it is, however.
>
>
--
Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England
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