From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 14 03:28:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01639 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 03:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01634 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 03:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA19196; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:27:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:27:35 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Don Lewis Cc: Garrett Wollman , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail greeting References: <199808140908.CAA23257@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 14 Aug 1998 12:27:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: Don Lewis's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:08:39 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA01635 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don Lewis writes: > 220 gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com ESMTP (NO UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL!); Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:05:54 -0700 (PDT) I stumbled upon the following once while trying to VRFY a friend's user name: (helsinki.fi is the University of Helsinki, Finland) dag-erli@hrotti ~$ telnet kantti.helsinki.fi smtp Trying 128.214.205.12... Connected to kantti.helsinki.fi. Escape character is '^]'. 220 kantti.Helsinki.FI ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.5-SPAMmers-sod-off; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:41 +0300 (EET DST) helo hrotti.ifi.uio.no 250 kantti.Helsinki.FI Hello 2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15], pleased to meet you, unless you are a SPAMmer quit 221 kantti.Helsinki.FI closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. He used to be slightly less polite, but apparently the suits must have found out. > I'd like to make it a little more verbose, but if it's any longer it confuses > Microsoft Exchange. I'd consider that a feature. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message