when i tried telnet to the local host as follows, i get the following message.
--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet 192.168.1.9 25 Trying 192.168.1.9... Connected to 192.168.1.9. Escape character is '^]'. 220 eriva.erivaind.com ESMTP user [EMAIL PROTECTED] 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) --------------------- any idea what has gone wrong ?
That's not the way to do SMTP AUTH.
Check out this very useful tutorial by Erwin Hoffmann, which includes instructions on testing an SMTP AUTH setup.
http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html
Does LWQ include SMTP AUTH patches to qmail-smtpd? Stock qmail doesn't include that feature.
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