Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:23:34 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Christian Schmidt wrote:
>> And if smtp_banner has been reduced to "Exim" (or the like) it won't return any
>> valuable information at all...
>
>Don't do that then. It's trivial to work out the important version-
>dependent features of a piece of software remotely, so you only
>reduce debuggability by hiding version numbers.


Sometimes the suits demand stuff like that. Yes, a possible workaround
would be a banner varying on source IP address, but re-adding that
possibility to exiwhat is a lot cleaner.

Greetings
Marc

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