Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-06 Thread Jonas Eckerman
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 --

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-05 Thread 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).

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-05 Thread Jonas Eckerman
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 to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Don Saklad
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

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Evan Platt
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

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
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 something

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Don Saklad
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.

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 can use

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread Shane Williams
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

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-04 Thread SM
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