SMTP and EHLO/HELO

[Tech163]

I have a script that looks up the MX record of a domain, and uses net/http to connect directly to it on port 25. I would like to avoid running postfix/sendmail/etc locally if possible.

Golang appears to send "EHLO localhost" by default. Is there a way of overriding the smtp.ehlo() function without manually editing the source files and customizing that?

[Devon H. O'Dell]

2013/2/22 Tech163 <tec...@sliceone.com>:

This makes no sense from the perspective of HTTP or SMTP. Please
explain what you're trying to do.

--dho

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[Tech163]

Oops. I meant net/smtp not net/http. I want to send emails using net/smtp but use a custom EHLO that is not "localhost"

[Devon H. O'Dell]

2013/2/22 Tech163 <tec...@sliceone.com>:

> Oops. I meant net/smtp not net/http. I want to send emails using net/smtp
> but use a custom EHLO that is not "localhost"

Ah, right. This is an issue that hasn't been fixed yet (to my
knowledge). I can't legally fix it, and I would appreciate anyone
providing a reasonable patch to do so. I never saw a patch from this
conversation (that doesn't mean it doesn't exist):

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/Pt_H9d3QVXg

Please send a patch! This is a real issue.

--dho

[Rick Arnold]

This is issue 4219 and it is fixed in tip.

http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4219

Rick

[Devon H. O'Dell]

2013/2/23 Rick Arnold <rickar...@gmail.com>:

> This is issue 4219 and it is fixed in tip.

Awesome, thanks. Wasn't aware that this got fixed.

--dho

> http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4219
>
> Rick