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

From Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
Newsgroups alt.comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.headers
Subject Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0 ???
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Date 2012-10-27 18:06 +0000
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On Sat, 2012-10-27, Solbu wrote:
>
> Mail Man sent the following transmission through subspace:
>
>> 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. There may be
servers which are "permissive in what they accept" and continue
without it, but if you're writing a client, why take the chance?

/Jorgen

-- 
  // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@  Oo  o.   .     .
\X/     snipabacken.se>   O  o   .

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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   ??? Claus Aßmann <ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-11-02 02:04 +0000
          Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-11-02 08:53 -0400
            Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Claus Aßmann <ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-11-02 22:19 +0000
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                Re: Would your SMTP server accept -> ehlo MAPI1.0   ??? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-11-03 09:56 -0400
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