Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:36:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail/smapd question Message-ID: <199801161536.HAA21499@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980116100523.11934E-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from Steve Hovey at "Jan 16, 98 10:06:54 am"
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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) perhaps they are not runing sendmail at all, but something else. what site? try telnetting to their mail port and see what you get. jmb
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