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Netscape Mail is beggining to PISS ME OFF!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Info junkie)
Fri Nov 8 10:38:01 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 07:55:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Info junkie <junkie@glcom.com>
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Ok so i have a small LAN. My Linux bos is the gateway, name server
etc; one of the machines is a windows 95 machine (borg.glcom.com)
[no relation to borg, the dude from redhat list -- i just named
it after the borg in starttrek]
I found out after painful debuging that Netscape mail does not
conform to the proper RFCs when it issues a HELO during an SMTP
connection.
The standard says HELO is followed by a domain name
eg "HELO glcom.com" -- netscape mail was issuing just a plain
"HELO" which is truly a violation of the protocol.
I solved this by hacking the sendmail source and allowing a
"HELO" without a domaina name.
So i figured that was it.
Now i found that there was something else....
POP3 retrieves fine from the server; however when sending via SMTP
there is a failure; here is the result from the maillog; Is Netscape
screwing me up again by issuing the correct End Of Message at the wrong time?
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Nov 7 21:46:04 glink sendmail[1808]: VAA01808: from=<jamal@glcom.com>,
size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=1, proto=SMTP, relay=borg.glcom.com [10.0.0.2]
Nov 7 21:46:51 glink sendmail[1810]: collect: premature EOM: Connection
reset by peer during collect with borg.glcom.com
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I use Sendmail 8.7.5 and netscape on the windoz machine is Gold 3.0.2
(or something close).
Is there anyone out there using Netscape for mail retrieveal with
Sendmail as the Transporter?
cheers
jamal
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