Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:02:42 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: hotmail question Message-ID: <15274.44498.356604.535810@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <80134405@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > However, I don't belive that they have. If you Telnet into the SMTP port > on any of Hotmails mailservers, you most definitely do NOT get a > Microsoft Exchange banner, unless they have totally modified the SMTP > banner. (which I fail to see the point of why they would do this) Possibly it's a different MS SMTP server than exchange? For instance, there appears to be one bundled with IIS. > One characteristic of Sendmail's banners is that they issue the time and > date as part of the greeting. I don't know if qmail does also, but I > don't see why they wouldn't. Microsoft Exchange does not. The Hotmail > SMTP servers definitely do. Both of these have the time and date in them, and look like MS servers to me: 220 tkecmailc02.one.microsoft.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.1600 ready at Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:40:20 -0700 220-mail5.mmcable.com Microsoft SMTP MAIL ready at Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:43:05 -0500 Version: 5.5.1877.537.53 I could understand MS tweaking a Unix MTA to claim to be Microsoft, but why would mmcable do that? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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