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<h1 class="page">SMTP Service Extensions (ESMTP)</h1>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_SMTP">SMTP Service Extensions</a>, written as "ESMTP"
and characterized in the literature as "Extended SMTP" (and sometimes "Enhanced SMTP")
is a framework for extending SMTP. Extensions are expected to be registered with
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<p>Whereas SMTP mandates that a session begins with the "HELO" command, ESMTP requires
the "EHLO" (extended hello) command. Note that nowadays even "standard" SMTP uses
EHLO as its initial greeting, and only falls back to HELO, so in a sense every
SMTP server has effectively become an ESMTP server.</p>
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<p>The ESMTP specification itself no longer actually exists independently of SMTP.
We mention it here mostly for completion, historical purposes, and as a reference
to a concept that is still very much in use, albeit now as a concept internal to
SMTP.</p>
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<h3 id="_rfc1425"><a class="anchor" href="#_rfc1425"></a>RFC1425</h3>
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<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1425">RFC1425</a> ("SMTP Service Extensions") is the originally
published ESMTP specification. It was obsoleted by <a href="#_rfc1651">RFC1651</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1651">RFC1651</a> ("SMTP Service Extensions") obsoletes <a href="#_rfc1425">RFC1425</a>
and was itself obsoleted by <a href="#_rfc1869">RFC1869</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1869">RFC1869</a> ("SMTP Service Extensions") obsoletes <a href="#_rfc1651">RFC1651</a>, and
is essentially the final specification in which ESMTP was defined separately from SMTP. When this
spec was obsoleted by <a href="smtp.html#RFC2821" class="xref page">RFC2821</a>, it was incorporated into the
SMTP specification.</p>
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