Re: [SMTP protocol] multi-line"greeting" reply banners

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Thanks for the problem report. I have changed the code in the CVS.  
Can you please check out monit from CVS following these instructions  
for anonymous check out, http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=monit  
and see if it works now?


On 9. sep. 2005, at 18.57, Debrard Sébastien wrote:

> Hi !
>
> Monit can't monitor correctly a mail server which sends multi-line
> banners.
>
> For example:
>
> Connected to glorfindel.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-InterScan Version 3.81-Build_1022 $Date: 12/19/2003 17:51:0017$:
> Ready
> 220 -All ESMTP mail transactions are being logged
> QUIT
> 221 glorfindel closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Monit does not catch correctly the last status (normally 221).
>
> The way I read RFC 821 suggests that multi-line "greeting" reply  
> banners
> are explicitly allowed (p. 4.2 SMTP REPLIES). However, the 4.2 SMTP
> Replies section shows us a more restrictive ABNF grammar description.
>
> In practice, all smtp clients accept mulit-line "greeting" reply
> banners. Monit should do the same, I think.
>
> I Hope it can help you to progress Monit.
>
> Séb.
>
>
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