joost witteveen wrote: > > The current debian smail (3.2.0.100-4) daemon does not accept HELO comands > with non-fully qualified hostnames. See the following, "rulvsa" is not OK, > whereas "rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl" is: > > $ telnet rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl 25 > Trying 132.229.1.33... > Connected to rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220-rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl Smail-3.2.0.100 (#2 1998-Jan-13) ready at Thu, 12 > Feb 1998 16:43:17 +0100 (CET) > 220 ESMTP supported > HELO rulvsa > 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'rulvsa' rejected from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] remote address [132.229.1.77]: hostname must contain a '.'. > HELO rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl > 250 rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl Hello rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl ([EMAIL PROTECTED] from > address [132.229.1.77]). > > > The smail from bo still does accept the short hostnames. For this > reason, some people are unable to send me email. > > Does anyone know who is breaking the RFC's? Is it our smail, or > the mail clients that do things like "HELO rulcmc"?
I believe that the RFC says you have to have a FQDN for HELO. I had to deal with this about 2.5 years agon when I was writing a MOO routine to send external mail. I'll have to see if I have the RFC or notes handy. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are Crunchy, and good with Catsup! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .