Re: Multiple HELO/EHLO?

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com> Tue, 03 October 2000 16:30 UTC

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> 	Now, the only section of the current draft that I was able to 
> find that appears to address this issue at all is the ninth paragraph 
> of section 4.5.4.1:

Section 4.1.4 para 2 spells it out explicitly:

An EHLO command MAY be issued by a client later in the session.  If it
is issued after the session begins, the SMTP server MUST clear all
buffers and reset the state exactly as if a RSET command had been
issued.  In other words, the sequence of RSET followed immediately by
EHLO is redundant, but not harmful other than in the performance cost
of executing unnecessary commands.

--lyndon