Re: [OT] qmail license question -- Yahoo

[Feizhou <feizhou@graffiti.net>]

Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, March  7 at 11:15 PM, quoth Erwin Hoffmann:
> > Is my impression right, that Yahoo uses since some weeks a heavily 
> > modified verison of qmail ?
> It does look somewhat similar, though it self-identifies as YSmtp or the 
> "Yahoo! MTA". If indeed it is qmail, they appear to have gone to some 
> length to hide that fact. Rather than base my estimate on its habits in 
> perfectly compliant SMTP responses, I think the way to find out would 
> more likely to be see if it has the same quirks.
> Off the top of my head, things you could test for are: incorrect 
> 8BITMIME handling, QSMBF, and CRLF strictness. Not that that *proves* 
> anything, of course, and some (like the 8BITMIME) might be a bit tricky 
> to check.
> ~Kyle
Just issue a help command during the smtp session. That will answer the 
question :)