Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Broken SMTP daemon @ WPAFB-FDL.ARPA
Message-ID: <11255@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 21:52:34 GMT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
Lines: 42

Someone call the protocol police!


	Script started on Mon Mar 13 16:45:18 1989
	You have mail.
	| 1 - s:david --> telnet wpafb-fdl.arpa smtp
	Trying...
	Connected to wpafb-fdl.arpa.
	Escape character is '^]'.
	220 HYPER-LINK VAX/VMS Simple Mail Transfer Service ready.
	helo e.ms.uky.edu
----->	501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments.
	mail from:<david@ms.uky.edu>
	250 Requested mail action okay, completed.
	rcpt to:<edwardsrl@wpafb-fdl.arpa>
	250 Requested mail action okay, completed.
	data
	354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>.
	From: david@ms.uky.edu
	To: edwardsrl@wpafl-fdl.arpa
	Subject: test 

	I'm demonstrating to comp.protocols.tcp-ip that your mailer is broken.
	.
	250 Requested mail action okay, completed.
	quit
	221 HYPER-LINK VAX/VMS Service closing transmission channel.
	Connection closed by foreign host.
	| 2 - s:david --> 
	script done on Mon Mar 13 16:47:07 1989

The marked line is in error.  I just checked in RFC-821 to make certain
and it says in section 4.1.1 that the HELO command and an affirmative
reply are necessary to ensure that both mailers are in sync.

Further in section 4.3 in the COMMAND-REPLY SEQUENCES, the only
allowable "Success" reply is a "250", "501" is an "Error" reply.
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