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Re: [Emailcore] Two extra issues

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Fri, 18 December 2020 17:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Emailcore] Two extra issues
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On Fri 18/Dec/2020 02:24:26 +0100 John R Levine wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Ned Freed wrote:
>> There's still quite a few HELO's being sent by IOT stuff that supports email.
>> And I can understand why - when every byte counts, code to fall back from EHLO
>> to HELO isn't going to be written.
> 
> Is that SMTP or submission?  I think we will continue to tolerate a lot more 
> sloppiness in submission than in SMTP relay.


What is going to be gained by not tolerating HELO on port 25 any more?  The 
server code is not going to shrink considerably, especially if the same code 
also supports port 587.

Sometimes I use HELO for a quick test with telnet[*] if for some reason I don't 
want the terminal window to scroll by the amount of lines that EHLO responses 
imply.


Best
Ale
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[*] Telnet: another candidate to historic which still comes in handy.

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