On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:51, lars ebeling wrote:

This is what the conversation looks like when I run telnet:

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25

Trying... Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Escape character is 'ÜÅ'. ehlo 220-Welcome to mailserver.domain.tld 220 mailserver.domain.tld (NT0234.04.fdc0aadd) ready for ESMTP transfer 501 Hostname expected. quit 221 Goodbye Ä62.119.162.107Å Connection closed by foreign host. This is my "conversation":

Trying 195.86.128.62... Connected to mail1.enrtd.nl.easynet.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP ehlo 250-Requested mail action okay, completed 250-SIZE 5242880 250 HELP

As you can see, the mail server returns 250 and not 220. Also, it takes a few seconds before the 220 SMTP appears. Maybe hobbit is too fast ??

Stef