On 2016-02-08, Mark Goodge wrote: > On 08/02/2016 15:38, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >>> On 5 Feb 2016, at 09:21, Adam Funk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Just curious: why are 100% of Postfix servers "Version Other"? >> >> The survey never proceeds beyond the "EHLO" greeting. That’s a shame, >> because it means that about 50% of servers aren’t identified, whereas >> some servers will give away their version number with a HELP, or >> something like that. Anyway, some servers display the software name >> at EHLO. And some of them also display the version number. Security >> consultants don’t like that, so the display of software name or >> version is often disabled. Not that it helps much, if at all. >> >> So, perhaps Postfix never displays a version number. > > Postfix doesn't display a version number by default, on the basis that > this information is of no relevance to a remote host trying to deliver > email to it. It can be configured to display a version number, but I > can't imagine why anybody would want to.
That explains it, thanks. I haven't used Postfix, so I didn't know that, but the statistics did look odd that way. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
