Richard Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >I was thinking of some way to examine the sender to see if it > >looked like it was a home computer running Windows XP as opposed to > >a server. > > to do this effectively on a machine in the UK would almost certainly > involve you in committing an offence under the Computer Misuse Act > 1990 On top of the legal and moral issues, hitting ports 135 etc won't be all that effective nowadays, as they'll probably be firewalled by XP for most home users. That said, the idea of fingerprinting has been discussed here before, and the friendly way to do it is passively, using p0f. I suspect that's the question that Marc should be asking... though asking google first might give the answer he wants! Cheers, Alun. -- Alun Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Support, (01970) 62 2494 Information Services, University of Wales, Aberystwyth -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
