Re: Mailserver HDD organization

[Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:02:59PM +0000, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> $ telnet hermes.cam.ac.uk smtp
> Trying 131.111.8.67...
> Connected to yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 3.22 #1 Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:58:44 +0000
>                                ^^^^^^^^^

I wouldn't always believe the version reported by a large mail server.  It's
quite common practice (I'm sure a lot on this list may do so) to display a
version string that is not at all accurate in an attempt to put off crackers
or create a honeypot.  You might ask, "Why not just have no version string
at all?"  Well, the SMTP RFC requires a string to be there - simple as that.

Anyway, in this case, it could well be accurate.. :)

Pete