{"id":64,"date":"2009-03-12T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:27","slug":"how-to-change-smtp-banner-in-exchange-server-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"How to Change SMTP Banner in Exchange Server 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SMTP banner is the message which the remote mail servers receive when establishing an SMTP connection to a receive connector on Exchange Server 2007. By default the initial message has the following format :<br \/>\n<strong>220 ExchangeInternalName Microsoft ESMTP MAIL service ready at Date-Hour-Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disclosing the internal Active Directory name and the type of the mail server to the outside world is definitely not a good idea, from security point of view.<\/p>\n<p>In the following <strong><a title=\"How to Change SMTP Banner in Exchange Server 2007\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/how-to-configure-smtp-banner-exchange-2007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/a><\/strong>, we will demonstrate how to configure the SMTP banner in Exchange Server 2007 SP1.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignleft\" title=\"How to Change SMTP Banner in Exchange Server 2007\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/how-to-configure-smtp-banner-exchange-2007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to Change SMTP Banner in Exchange Server 2007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/change-220-smtp-banner.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we will demonstrate how to configure the SMTP banner in Exchange Server 2007 SP1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[180,18],"tags":[264,266,263,267,268,40,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}