From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 05:55:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29301 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29295 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA02375; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:50:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26001; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:55:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id IAA03992; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:55:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:55:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801171355.IAA03992@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more smap/sendmail In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 16 January, 1998, at 12:42 (-0500) Steve Hovey wrote: > If I telnet to one of these smap boxes and type EHLO it says > > 500 command not recognized > > Is the 500 part maybe what is messing up some of the sendmails? No, sendmail should handle that. It certainly generates `500' errors. Connect to a sendmail box and type "ABCD" as the command; you should get 500 Command unrecognized: "ABCD" See RFC 821 for a list of SMTP (not ESMTP) numeric response codes. `500' simply means `Syntax error, command unrecognized'. `smap' only speaks SMTP, not ESMTP. (I just checked my copy of the 2.0 source.) (FYI, for more information on ESMTP, see RFC 1651.) ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice. Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it. -- G. L. Glegg, The Design of Design