How to stop GWIA from publishing GroupWise information on an initial SMTP connection

  • 7002093
  • 05-Dec-2008
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Products:
Novell GroupWise 6.5
Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 8

Situation

Purpose:
To stop Groupwise Internet Agent (GWIA) from publishing GroupWise information on an initial SMTP connection 

Resolution

By default GWIA respond to an incoming connection with the following message:
"220 domain.com GroupWise Internet Agent <version number> Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Novell, Inc. All rights reseved. Ready" 

Corrective Steps:
Luanch ConsoleOne, right click on the GWIA object | Properties | SMTP/MIME | Settings tab and check the box "Do not publish GroupWise information on an initial SMTP connection"