Ooh, when did Verisign get rid of their Snubby program and put in something that
actually behaves like an SMTP server? Seems verisign are watching the community
reaction and acting to rectify their errors.. well some of them....
$ telnet sdfjsdfjsdjflsd.com 25
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to sdfjsdfjsdjflsd.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 VeriSign mail rejector (Postfix)
HELO as
250 OK
MAIL FROM:me
250 Ok
RCPT TO:you
550 <unknown[193.0.255.132]>: Client host rejected: The domain you are trying to
send mail to does not exist.
DATA
554 Error: no valid recipients
hello
502 Error: command not implemented
421 Error: too many errors
Connection closed by foreign host.
Worth noting that they don't accept mail to postmaster@.
[ david@willow: ~/ ]$ telnet aabbefhkl.net 25
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 VeriSign mail rejector (Postfix)
EHLO willow
250-OK
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-ETRN
250-XVERP
250 8BITMIME
MAIL FROM: <me@you>
250 Ok
RCPT TO: <postmaster@aabbefhkl.net>
550 <unknown[24.101.18.86]>: Client host rejected: The domain you are trying to send mail to does not exist.
QUIT
221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
Those two capabilities are bogus as well.
--lyndon
Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If you get lost
then you can drop it on the ground, wait 10 minutes, and ask the
backhoe operator how to get back to civilization.
-- Alan Frame