For those following Sender based authentication - a question
Dan Jenkins
dan at rastech.com
Mon Nov 22 10:51:01 EST 2004
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Sheesh. HELO is not a header. :-) <snip> RFC-2821, Section 4.1.1.1,
> Paragraph 3, further states:
>
> ... In any event, a client MUST issue HELO or EHLO before starting a
> mail transaction.
>
> Any questions? :-)
None now, sir. :-)
I did a little research and realized that the reason various mail
servers allowed email without HELO was because of broken mail servers
(apparently, WinNT had one - surprise, surprise). And Daniel Borstein
(of qmail fame) felt HELO/EHLO was obsolete. I never went back to the
RFCs like I should have. Thanks for the definitive clarification.
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