Thanks John. The purpose was not to send email. I was just trying to see if I am able to do a conversation with some server using a socket, as I am just learning to program a socket. No I have not read RFC2821, but I am familiar with the basic SMTP commands.
Thanks, Rex -----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Socket] Question [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Friends, > > I am trying to learn little bit of socket programming in Perl. I tried one > of the code snippet from Perl cookbook as a starting point. I am tring to > 'talk' to my SMTP mail server. You should probably use Net::SMTP. > But when I type HELO through the console, it > seems like my script is not writing to the server socket and it is getting > into an inordinate wait state. What am I doing wrong? Am I not flushing the > output properly to the server socket? Have you read RFC2821? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
