Funny 220 response code...

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Howard -

WOW

This brings back fond memories of the good old days. :-)
Thanks for the note.

     Terry McCarty
    3t3 at comcast.net
        wa5nti



Howard Cunningham wrote:

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> I spend much of my day looking into various email problems for our 
> customers.  I was working on one today and came across an interesting 
> log entry.
>
> When our server sends a message and initial connection is made and the 
> remote sends out a "220" SMTP response code.  Usually it's just the 
> official host name of the server, but some send out all kinds of spam 
> and security warnings.   Some US Government servers give out a couple 
> of pages of warnings via a 220 code.  Nobody ever sees these codes 
> unless they have access to the server logs or manually telnets to the 
> server... the code is not included in a message header.  Anyway to get 
> to the point... a user needed to know if a message was actually 
> delivered so I checked the log (and it was delivered).   The 220 SMTP 
> response code from whoever runs the server made me laugh:
>
> 13:12:01 [41241] Connection to 64.136.173.100:25 from 72.9.X.X:63739 
> succeeded (Id: 51)
> 13:12:08 [41241] RSP: 220 **** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 
> ****                                             64K RAM SYSTEM @ 
> 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE              READY.
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