Changing your SMTP banner for fun and profit

by Ed Fisher on 2010-09-10

in Infrastructure

Next up in my series of guest posts on TheEmailAdmin is actually a follow-up post to the earlier 7 Deadly Sins of Mail Server Misconfigurations. In this post, I go over how to change the banner of your SMTPd on several popular mail server platforms, as well as just why you would. If this sounds like the sort of thing that would interest you, please click on the pretty picture below, and feel free to retweet it or leave a comment on the site.

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