[Wolves] Freeserve port 25

[Ron Wellsted]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Old Dan wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have (vague :) ) memories of Ron telling me that at least at one stage
> Freeserve played silly buggers with port 25 with their customers.
>
> Anyhoo, I've connected to my machine on port 25 via telnet and get the
> following:
>
> 220 debian.dannyboy.dnsalias.org ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Thu, 18 Sep 2003
> 11:28:52 +0100
>
> Now to me that looks fine, like I'm connecting to my own machine.  Am I
> missing something?  (Very believable - my head still hurtz from last
> night...)
>

Try the same trick to another system that an MX record outside of
freeserves network, say smtp1.google.com and see what header you get.
They may have stopped intercepting port 25.

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Ron Wellsted
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