Banners can be used by hackers to determine vulnerabilities on a system. The ability to set the banner to "Go Away" or whatever allows the administrator to protect their systems from prying eyes just a bit more.
-----Original Message----- From: S=F6nke Ruempler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: greeting banner > Is it possible to use a custom greeting banner instead of "220 =3D=20 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [XMail 1.10 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP = =3D > Server] service ready; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:00:58 +0200"? nope, not possible with xmail and not needed. the sendmail/.../... programmers should take the time to fix bugs and simple configuration instead of kidding around with 'nice to meet you' status msgs... they are completely unnecessary and a normal user will never see it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
