From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 08:03:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23136 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23123; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20834; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:58:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:58:19 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail/smapd question (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > > I use smapd to keep out as much spammage as possible. > > > > Lately I hav encountered 2 sites who cannot send email here, because their > > emailers will only do ESMTP and not regular SMTP which smapd is only > > capable of. > > > > Could this be some sendmail.cf jobber on their end which is causing this? > > sendmail will fallback from ESMTP to SMTP > whenever the other smtp speaker does not understand > the initial EHLO (EHLO is sent in place of SMTP's HELO) Thats what it is timing out on, and that is what they are running - I telnetted to port 25 and it was a sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Engineer BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------