Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Luke Gorrie writes:
> "Pascal J.Bourguignon" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Did you  ever try to talk IMAP3  to a server yourself?  And POP3? Even
> > SMTP is more complex than POP3!
> 
> Of course SMTP servers can be fairly helpful..
> 
>    $ telnet mail 25
>    Escape character is '^]'.
>    220 mail.bluetail.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9/duva-2.0; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:18:03 +0200
> => help
     [...]
>    Connection closed by foreign host.

That's my point: simple as SMTP may be, there's a need for on-line help... :-)


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