On Sat, Jul 02, 2005, Hector Santos wrote:
[Please do NOT Cc' me.]
220 zardoc.esmtp.org ESMTP sendmail X.0.0.Alpha4.0
helo 65.10.44.25
250 zardoc.esmtp.org Hi there
This would be an illegal syntax per the ABNF:
      address-literal = "[" IPv4-address-literal /
                            IPv6-address-literal /
                            General-address-literal "]"
      helo            = "HELO" SP Domain CRLF
      Domain = (sub-domain 1*("." sub-domain)) / address-literal
      sub-domain = Let-dig [Ldh-str]
How do you know it's not a domain? Do you perform a DNS lookup?
PS:
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ehlo 1.2.3.4
250-winserver.com, Pleased to meet you.
Hmm, why again are you complaining about my software?