Re: STARTTLS & EHLO: Errata text?

SM <sm@resistor.net> Sun, 01 February 2009 13:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: STARTTLS & EHLO: Errata text?
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At 13:37 31-01-2009, Hector Santos wrote:
>So the one question I did have was the response code from the 
>server.  As shown, the server issued 550. It was something:
>
>    [TLS established]
>    C: MAIL FROM <xxxx>
>    S: 550 EHLO/HELO required.
>
>Shouldn't the server response be 503 (Bad Sequence of commands)?

That would be a 503 as the SMTP session is reset to the initial state 
upon completion of the TLS handshake.

>If so, should this be stated in the revised text?

This is about SMTP.

Regards,
-sm