Re: [Classpath-inetlib] SMTP greeting & continuation?

[Chris Burdess]

petite_abeille wrote:
> It appears that some SMTP server send a continuation flag in their 
> initial greeting... for example, AOL:
>
> % telnet mailin-02.mx.netscape.net 25
>
> 220-rly-na01.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-na1.2; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 
> 07:45:09 -0400
> 220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
> 220-     authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
> 220-     networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
> 220-     e-mail sent from the internet.  Effective immediately:  AOL
> 220-     may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
> 220      have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.
>
> Unfortunately, this confuses SMTPConnection quiet a bit :/
>
> What would be a reasonable way to deal with this? Should the 
> SMTPConnection constructor loop through getResponse() while the 
> continuation flag is true?
>
> More generally, should the getResponse() always read the entire 
> response when it encounters a continuation flag?

Yes. Feel free to raise issues like this as a bug in Savannah.

A fix is now in CVS.
--
Chris Burdess