[Cialug] SMTP and ESMTP

Nathan C. Smith cialug@cialug.org
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:29:07 -0600


Is it common for an MTA to just assume a server it is sending to speaks
ESMTP or should it check first?  

The MTA in question is zmailer and I'm sending to some kind of MTA or
firewall that seems to only speak SMTP and there doesn't appear to be any
fallback going on.

-Nate

Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667