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

[Sébastien Debrard]

Hi !

Thanks for the patch.

It seems to work perfectly now (smtp multi-line banner).

That's true I forgot to tell you which version of monit I use (the
cvs version on a RH linux box in this case).



Le samedi 10 septembre 2005 à 14:56 +0200, Jan-Henrik Haukeland a
écrit :
> 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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