finding out what software a mail server is using?

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Jesse,

Thanks for the info. I am hoping to be able to somewhat automate
this <g> since I sent the first email We were able to get a
count of domains. We are sending to about 1200 distinct domains.

The onlyother problem is that currently our firewall blocks
outgoing telnet sessions (this isa bank, and a German one at
that so they are very security consisous, and I can't spell this
morning either!). <g>

Dale

And what are you still doing up? Isn't it past your
bedtime?!?!!?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:02:06 -0800
"Jesse Williams Proudman" <lists@ninewire.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>

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