Re: [Exim] Re: Two issues relating to spam

On 2002-03-13 at 13:37 +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Heh - but it seems a pretty simple thing to do - and postfix has the right
> idea on how to handle it (checking for smtp banner being the same as your
> own)

# exim -C /dev/null -bP smtp_banner
smtp_banner = ${primary_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} ${tod_full}

${tod_full} ... same as my own ... I spy a race condition. Race
conditions are the "right" way to do something? Or does that mailer not
provide the time of day in the banner? I think that it was conversation
on exim-users which turned me to the dark side ^W^W^W^W^W^W convinced me
that letting people check for time offsets was a good thing.

Of course, given that, I might as well just enable the daytime service
...
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Tomorrow isn't looking good either.