Don Saklad wrote:
How do novice end users, neophytes examine things and determine
what is the mail delivery agent ?...
They ask the system administrators.
as a general understanding
of the particular system at hand.
For this they might have to read the documentation.
Regards
/Jonas
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Jona
Mike Jackson wrote:
>> mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?...
> Just connect to port 25 and observe the banner.
That normally won't work. The banner normally only includes the mail *transfer*
agent and not the mail *delivery* agent.
Even though many MTAs have a builtin or bundled MDA,
How do you do it?...
> Just connect to port 25 and observe the banner. Not 100%
> foolproof, but most of them either identify themselves
> (Sendmail) or have a recognizable banner (Postfix, Qmail,
> Exchange).
Thank you Mike Jackson !
How would, where would a mail transfer agent tell you the
mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?...
Just connect to port 25 and observe the banner. Not 100% foolproof, but most
of them either identify themselves (Sendmail) or have a recognizable banner
(Postfix, Qmail, Exchange).
At 16:40 04-12-2006, Don Saklad wrote:
How would, where would a mail transfer agent tell you the
mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?...
You are using Exim as the mail transfer agent. Exim comes with its
own mail delivery agent. The mail delivery agent would be specified
in the Exi
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Evan Platt wrote:
At 12:20 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote:
How do novice end users, neophytes examine things and determine
what is the mail delivery agent ?... as a general understanding
of the particular system at hand.
This is with respect to setting up a secondary mail file for
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Don Saklad wrote:
> How would, where would a mail transfer agent tell you the
> mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?...
>
> Developing instructive information without acronyms,
> without industry jargon that complete novices, neophytes
> ca
How would, where would a mail transfer agent tell you the
mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?...
Developing instructive information without acronyms,
without industry jargon that complete novices, neophytes
can use easily is the heart of the matter.
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:32:44PM -0800, Evan Platt wrote:
> Unless I'm not understanding you... You could attempt to telnet to
> the mail server on port 25, some will say for example:
> 220 example.com ESMTP Postfix
Assuming the MTA doesn't tell you (I think most of them do), you can do
somethi
At 12:20 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote:
How do novice end users, neophytes examine things and determine
what is the mail delivery agent ?... as a general understanding
of the particular system at hand.
This is with respect to setting up a secondary mail file for
screened spam type messages that later
How do novice end users, neophytes examine things and determine
what is the mail delivery agent ?... as a general understanding
of the particular system at hand.
This is with respect to setting up a secondary mail file for
screened spam type messages that later can be checked over for
any false po
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