Description: ------------ need to retrieve the greeting sent by the server - from this you can determine which actual mail server you have interacted with; very useful for tracking if you're connecting through a round-robin of mail servers! similar patch coming for the mail package.

The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: Net_SMTP-SMTP.php.greeting.diff Revision: 1238778319 URL: http://pear.php.net/bugs/patch-display.php?bug=$bug&patch=$patch_name&revision=$e&display=1

the patch given here is a dependency of that given for http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16067

It is already possible to retrieve the SMTP server's response arguments via the getResponse() method. Is that not sufficient for your use case? Also, with your given patch, the greeting string is set to the entire (first) response line. Would it be better to set it to just the argument portion (without the code)?

The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: Net_SMTP-SMTP.php.greeting.v2.diff Revision: 1239126202 URL: http://pear.php.net/bugs/patch-display.php?bug=$bug&patch=$patch_name&revision=$e&display=1

now that I'm a bit more clued in, here's a better way of doing this ;-) (as hinted at in your comment for request 16063) this uses getResponse in the connect method - much cleaner and with mimimum performance hit!

That looks pretty reasonable. I'll try to incorporate this into the Net_SMTP package soon.

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