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Date:      14 Aug 1998 12:27:35 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail greeting
Message-ID:  <xzpd8a3q2nc.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Don Lewis's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:08:39 -0700"
References:  <199808140908.CAA23257@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> 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
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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