I tried "telnet smtp 25 '*'" and nothing, but your suggestion worked. Thanks!!!
On 9/17/2014 6:57 PM, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hey, > > Did you tried googling it? "telnet smtp 220 asterisks"? > Looks like is a cisco feature. > > Cheers, > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Eric Shubert <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 09/17/2014 02:35 PM, Eric Broch wrote: > > Hello list, > > Can anyone tell me why, when I telnet to one of my email > servers over > port 25 that the SMTP greeting is starred (*) out, but if I > telnet to > the same server over the submission port I get the standard > greeting. As > follows: > > # telnet host.domain.com <http://host.domain.com> 25 > Trying 'host address' > Connected to 'host address' > Escape character is '^]' > 220 ************************************************************* > > # telnet host.domain.com <http://host.domain.com> 587 > Trying 'host address' > Connected to 'host address' > Escape character is '^]' > 220 smtp server greeting > > > Looks to me like there is some other host that's receiving the > port 25 traffic, like a firewall/proxy device of some sort, that's > either intercepting or altering the 220 reply. If you're not > seeing any tcpserver lines in the smtp log, then it'd be the > former. If you do see corresponding tcpserver log messages, then > it'd be the later. > > > And, will this affect my SMTP email reception in any way? > > > I wouldn't think so. It would keep your server from being counted > in some polling that's done to see what kind of mail servers > people are using. It's for that reason that I encourage people to > leave the "Qmail Toaster Ver. 1.3" string in there. I probably > should bump up that version for the new packages. ;) > > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > >
