[Python-Dev] 2nd thought: fully qualified host names (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:30:10 +0200

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> P.S.: I am cc'ing the list so everyone and Thomas can > rush in and provide their RFC knowledge.

Oh, I forgot to point out: I have some RFC knowledge, but decided not to use it in the case of the HELO message ;) I do have a lot of hands-on experience with SMTP, and I know for a fact very little MUA that talk SMTP send a FQDN in the HELO message. I think that sending the FQDN when we can (like we do, now) is a good idea, but I don't see a reason to force the HELO message to be a FQDN.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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