Comcast Email - Some humor for the geeks out there.

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Nate7311

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So I'm working on migrating a customer over to comcast's Hosted Exchange platform. Doing some final testing before taking them live, I naturally try some telnet SMTP magic to verify correct mail flow before making the DNS changes. In my haste, I send command out of order. I've never been scolded by a mail server before, I'm not sure what to think :rolleyes:...

220 imta03.potomac.co.businessclass.comcast.net bizsmtp ESMTP server ready
mail from: **Sending Email Addy**
503 5.5.0 polite people say HELO first
helo test
250 imta03.potomac.co.businessclass.comcast.net hello [Originating IP], pleased
to meet you
mail from: **Sending Email Addy**
250 2.1.0 <**Sending Email Addy**> sender ok
rcpt to: **Customer Email Addy**
250 2.1.5 <**Customer Email Addy**> recipient ok
 
Yeah, I've seen some pretty funny SMTP messages like that before too. I think google had a few...
 
Sad to say I'm more of a dick admin; you don't follow protocol, I drop your connection and blackhole the IP for set amounts of time ( depending on how many times I've had issues with your IP. Goes from 5 minutes, to 30, to 1 hour to perma-ban ).

Still, nice to see someone putting some effort into it.
 
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