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- Changing the SMTP greeting issued by MercuryS
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-
- When an incoming connection is received by the MercuryS SMTP server,
- the first thing MercuryS does is issue a "greeting". This greeting
- typically looks like this:
-
- --------- cut here --------------
- 220 somehost.somedomain.com Mercury/32 v3.21 ESMTP server ready.
- --------- cut here --------------
-
- The server then waits for the client to introduce itself and start
- a mail transaction.
-
- Recent suggested law changes in the U.S.A. and other countries may
- make it desirable to be able to change the "greeting" issued by
- MercuryS on connection, typically to indicate that certain types of
- mail may not be welcome.
-
- To change the MercuryS greeting, create a text file called
- GREETING.MER in the directory where MERCURY.EXE is installed. This
- file should contain the text you want MercuryS to display, and must
- be no longer than 512 characters.
-
- We recommend the following text as a starting point:
-
- --------- cut here --------------
- Use of this server for unauthorised relaying of mail is forbidden.
- Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ("spam") is NOT WELCOME HERE.
- --------- cut here --------------
-
- If you were to use this text in your GREETING.MER file, then the
- opening message displayed by MercuryS would look like this:
-
- --------- cut here --------------
- 220-somehost.somedomain.com Mercury/32 v3.21 ESMTP server ready.
- 220-Use of this server for unauthorised relaying of mail is forbidden.
- 220 Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ("spam") is NOT WELCOME HERE.
- --------- cut here --------------
-
- MercuryS automatically adds the SMTP response codes and continuation
- characters correctly.
-
- Using an "extended greeting" in this way *may* on rare occasions
- create problems with some older mail clients that cannot handle
- multi-line greetings. We recommend that you experiment with the
- feature for a while to make sure no mail interruption is occurring
- before you fix it in place.
-
- Remember, you cannot have more than 512 characters of data in your
- GREETING.MER file.
-
-