[Wolves] Freeserve port 25

[Old Dan]

Ron Wellsted wrote:

> 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.
> 
220 tmailt1.svr.pol.co.uk ESMTP Exim 4.14 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:48:12 +0100

Methinks they have.  Good-o.  :)

-- 
Dan