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jedberg • yesterday at 7:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> You had me at EHL0.

You just reminded me of my time working at Sendmail, where I often had to telnet to port 25 of some machine, and pretend to be a mail server sending email.

I used to be able to send all the commands without having to look them up. Not sure I could still do that today.

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frumplestlatz • yesterday at 7:30 AM

I think can still do it, 30 years after I last had to. The trauma of debugging sendmail m4 config issues for hours while the company e-mail remained dysfunctional has permanently etched it into my mind.

  EHLO example.com
  MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
  RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
  DATA
  Subject: Hello, World

  I have crawled through the depths of hell to deliver unto you this message.
  .
Wietse Venema saved us all.
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