From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 20: 2:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25FF637B407 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 92706 invoked by uid 100); 21 Sep 2001 03:02:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15274.44498.356604.535810@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:02:42 -0500 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: hotmail question In-Reply-To: <80134405@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt 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? 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