Search Again: Re: finding out what software a mail server is using? From: Jesse Proudman Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 Time: 8:02:00 am IF you telnet into the server on either port 25 or 110, it should show you up top. Like if you telnet into mail.ninewire.com:25 you get: 220-Stalker Internet Mail Server V.1.8b8 is ready. 220 ESMTP is spoken here. You are very welcome So you can tell I'm running SIMS 1.8b8. Jesse Proudman - NineWire Productions http://www.ninewire.com <-> jesse@ninewire.com Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting > -----Original Message----- > From: quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com > [mailto:quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com]On Behalf Of Dale Therio > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 12:51 AM > To: QuickDNS Talk > Subject: finding out what software a mail server is using? > > > Hi folks, > > We are trying to find out what email server software the > majority of our clients are using. This is due to the way in > which some of the higher ups want us to send files to them. > > We have some people internally claiming that 90% of our clients > use Exchange (I think our clients are much smarter than that!). > The higher ups want to send an embedded URL to the people that > receive our pfd documentation to our new video version of > research information. And since another company is hosting the > video feeds for us they want to hide the domain name of the > other company (the webpages are designed to look like our > corporate pages). And since this is a Bank I work for we > especially need to do things the right way. > > One person sugegsted simply sending an email to xxxx@domain.com > and then reading the bounce message. I turned this idea down as > it could be interperted as though we were trying to spam or > otherwise launch some sort of attack on these servers. > > We could of course send an email to postmaster@..... and ask > them, but this could take sometime and of course some domains > don't even have a postmaster account. We should also be able to > tell from any bounced messages what software they are using but > we want to do this the right way. > > I own DNS Expert but don't think this would be able to tell me > this information. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Dale > >

Messages In This Thread: Re: finding out what software a mail server is using? by Jesse Proudman on Feb 18, 2000 at 8:02:00 am finding out what software a mail server is using? by Dale Therio on Feb 18, 2000 at 8:51:00 am Re: finding out what software a mail server is using? by Dale Therio on Feb 18, 2000 at 9:32:00 am Re: finding out what software a mail server is using? by Jesse Proudman on Feb 18, 2000 at 3:33:00 pm Re: finding out what software a mail server is using? by Men & Mice Support on Feb 18, 2000 at 6:39:00 pm