Last I heard HotMail was creating a totally custom back-end, derived from,
I believe, qmail. I have a friend who works in the hotmail department, but
I haven't talked to him lately. I'll send him a friendly request for info
(to satisfy our burning curiosity) and pass the info on to the list...
-Rob
At 01:33 PM 9/18/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > I really wouldn't wonder if they were still using it and simply put a
> > bunch of W2K boxes in front of them acting as proxies to hide the
> > fact. Impossible to say what's really going on there without having
> > access to the backend (which, OTOH, shouldn't be too hard to gather
> > if
> > the frontend is W2K...).
> >
>
>Heres the welcome banner for their SMTP servers
>
>220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:33:18 -0700
>220 ESMTP spoken here
>
>Paul
