Search Again: finding out what software a mail server is using? From: Dale Therio Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 Time: 8:51:00 am 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