[Exim] Re: SMTP banner

In article <20020103130544.D17638@???>,
Vadim Vygonets <vadik-exim@???> wrote:
>Quoth Miquel van Smoorenburg on Wed, Jan 02, 2002:
>> In article <20020102094548.E6661@???>,
>> Marc MERLIN <marc_news@???> wrote:
>> >Ideally, having the hostname in there would be better:
>> >smtp_banner = $primary_hostname: Exim 4 ESMTP server ready
>>
>> And the local time, please. It's very helpful when customers claim that
>> their mail arrives late and you can show that it's really the clock on
>> the other system that is way off. Having the date in the banner is
>> important to be able to adequately debug mail delivery problems.
>
>But is the SMTP banner logged anywhere?

Well no but it shows up if you telnet to the SMTP port.

>Local time is logged in
>Received: headers.

Yes but you do not know *when* it was logged if the clock of the
remote system is not NTP synchronized. And you can check that fact
by telnetting to the smtp port of the remote system, if it shows
the date in the smtp banner that is.

Mike.