Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:33:50 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, info@pagecreators.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970723073115.869d-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199707222041.NAA14032@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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/* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */ On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > Microsoft Exchange is also vanilla SMTP; they do not support > the ESMTP "EHLO", or the "ETRN" extension for per domain queue > dumping, as in the most recent version of Sendmail. They don't > even support the dangerously insecure "TURN" command. > > Post.Office has this same problem. Post.Office *does* support, > as of 3.1, a local ESMTP extension "XREMOTEQUEUE". Unfortunately, > this command is not documented anywhere, at least that I have > been able to determine. > > This means that using an NT machine as a Point Of Presence" mail > server is not a good idea, in general. Another thing, I don't know of a WinNT SMTP agent which allows you to turn off mail relay for non-local domains. i.e. spam@savetrees.com -> someone@somewhere.else. Although non-standard, sendmail does allow this. So if you are happy to act as a relay for cyberpromo, use NT. Danny
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