It returns green too. The sendmail servers did log their disapproval, but they do to the method I had used as well. I added a "mail from:emailaddress" to it, and that seems to make everyone happy.

[smtp] send "ehlo hostname.domainname.com\r\nmailfrom:hobbit at server.com\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220" options banner port 25

Michael Lowery

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Unexpected service response

In <40534FFD21F8E9428DD8CCF2B60B09EC7C0C9D at atlitdc01.atg.local> "Lowery, Michael" <mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com> writes:

[smtp flipping between green and yellow]

I have changed the smtp test to the following, and I get green, no flapping between Yellow and green anymore in the history files either.

Is the test just wrong by default, or should I be concerned that I had to change it from the default?

[smtp] send "ehlo hostname.domainname.com\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220" options banner port 25

The original test was the same as the BB way of testing. That is not to say it was "right", just to explain where I grabbed it from.

Techically, the original test - which just sends "mail" and then "quit" - is improper; the "mail" command requires arguments, e.g. mail from: <some.email at address.net> so it isn't too surprising that some servers complain about it.

I'm tempted to change it to

[smtp] send "rset\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220" options banner port 25

and would like to hear if that also works with your setup. I think the reason for the "mail" command first was to please sendmail, which has a habit of logging connections that dont send a "mail" command (it generated a "NOQUEUE" entry in the log, but I dont know if it still does that).

Regards, Henrik

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