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 Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 12/29/07 09:33 
mp- wrote: 
> On Dec 28, 5:56 pm, Iv�n S�nchez Ortega <ivansanchez-...@rroba- 
> escomposlinux.-.punto.-.org> wrote: 
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote: 
>>> take the domain part of their address and try looking for MX, then A 
>>> records..and hope their ISP doesn't have a relay in the way.. 
>> ... And do a port scan on pop3.domain, and imap.domain, and do keep a 
>> whitelist of known domains and servers (together with a manual way of 
>> adding a domain+server to that whitelist). 
>> 
>> -- 
>> ---------------------------------- 
>> Iv�n S�nchez Ortega -ivansanchez-algarroba-escomposlinux-punto-org- 
>> 
>> Why was God able to create the universe in only seven days? Because he 
>> didn't have an installed base to deal with. 
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>  
> Doing a port scan on imap.domain.com, pop.domain.com, etc.. just seems 
> like taking an educated guess as to what the IMAP/POP3 server name 
> is. 
>  
> Does a DNS record exist describing the hostname for a particular 
> domains IMAP/POP3 servers?  It seems that the MX record is only for 
> SMTP - which doesn't necessarily mean IMAP/POP3 is on that same 
> machine. 
 
MX is the target for publically recievable mail. It may, or may not be,  
on the same machine. 
 
 
For small domains it usually is.
 
  
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