Kevin.. it works if you give the proper machine name in the HELO at least for me: telnet postoffice.reston.mci.net. 25 Trying 204.70.128.20... Connected to postoffice.reston.mci.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 postoffice.Reston.mci.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 14:44:12 -0400 (EDT) HELO puck.nether.net 250 postoffice.Reston.mci.net Hello jared@puck.nether.net [204.42.254.5], pleased to meet you MAIL FROM:<jared@cic.net> 250 <jared@cic.net>... Sender ok quit 221 postoffice.Reston.mci.net closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. Kevin Houle boldly claimed:
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:04:00 -0700 Danny McPherson <danny@genuity.net> wrote:
Hmmm.. postmaster@mci.net?
Gee, that'd work.
dig mci.net. mx
mci.net. 1H IN MX 10 postoffice.reston.mci.net. mci.net. 1H IN MX 20 alpha1.reston.mci.net.
Kevin
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