On Thursday 18 March 2010 13:26:43 Barney Desmond wrote: > On 18 March 2010 21:57, Jonathan Tripathy <jon...@abpni.co.uk> wrote:
<snipped> > 3. We read the report, and find things like "server exposes its > hostname in the greeting banner", or "server appears to allow the use > of the VRFY command". Does this mean that the service-desk of companies are not compliant either? 1) Check in phonebook for number of VISA credit card service desk 2) Call listed number They then will answer with: "Hello, thank you for calling VISA credit card service desk, <insert name> speaking, how may I help you?" Me: Hi, can you please direct me to <insert other name here> How is this different from: ** $ telnet mail.isp.com 25 Trying 10.1.4.50... Connected to mail.isp.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailer.isp.com ESMTP Postfix MAIL TO <user> MAIL TO OK ** I guessed the last 2 lines, but I think it shows what I mean? :) -- Joost Roeleveld