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Re: finding out what software a mail server is using?
From: Jesse Proudman
Date: Friday, February 18, 2000
Time: 3:33:00 pm
:)
With about 1200 distinct domains, even sending fake bounce messages is going
to be unruly. Best bet might be to hire a programmer that could make an
application that telnets to the server, reads those lines, and puts an x in
the count for that server type. If you need some programmers email
addresses, I might be able to help you out.
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 1:33 AM
> To: QuickDNS Talk
> Subject: Re: finding out what software a mail server is using?
>
>
> 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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