[plug] Re: HELO antispam checks

[James Devenish]

In message <41739784.80207 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:14:28PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Tim wrote:
> > > Where can I find out what Exim is identifying its self as?
> > It probably uses /etc/mailname by default.  Otherwise the
> > primary_hostname setting in exim.conf,
> If in doubt, a good way to be sure is to simply do a tcpdump of an
> outgoing mail session.  Exim may also offer a method of logging
> sessions for config debugging.

And then...

> $ telnet mail.postnewspapers.com.au 25
> Connected to access.postnewspapers.com.au.
> Trying 202.72.149.28...
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.postnewspapers.com.au ESMTP Postfix

There you go: telnet to port 25 to find out how Exim is advertising
itself. Use QUIT<enter> or <esc>quit<enter> to escape from telnet.