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Re: rfc2821bis-01 Issue 14 Continuation of 222 greeting

2007-04-06 16:24:13



--On Friday, 06 April, 2007 23:57 +0100 Tony Finch
<dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at> wrote:


On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, John C Klensin wrote:

I don't know how many of them still exist in the wild, but
there was a time that a multiline opening greeting would
cause some clients to self-destruct.

There are a number of servers that have a multi-line greeting
by default. I've been running my server for years now with a
multi-line greeting and observed no interop problems (3M
messages per week).

Ok.  Unless someone else objects, that is persuasive.

     john

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