It looks like Apple might be employing Sun's Java Messaging Server (Grid?) for behind the scenes heavy lifting that enables the new MobileMe functionality. Performing a telnet to "smtp-mx1.mac.com" on port 25 MacTalk User MacTicks got the following response:
$ telnet smtp-mx1.mac.com 25Trying 17.148.20.64Connected to smtp-mx1.mac.com.Escape character is '^]'.220 smtpin122.mac.com -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit))quit221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.
We followed up today with the same request and got the following:
$ telnet smtp-mx1.mac.com 25Trying 17.148.20.64Connected to smtp-mx1.mac.com.Escape character is
