On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w >And telnet to port 25: paul.w > paul.w >"FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 paul.w >Trying 127.0.0.1... paul.w >Connected to dial.pipex.com. paul.w >Escape character is '^]'. paul.w >mail... Recipient names must be specified paul.w >^] paul.w >telnet> q paul.w >Connection closed. " paul.w >
if your are telnetting to a *sendmail* SMTP server you will see something similar to: Trying 208.222.179.30... Connected to mail.firetrail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bebo.firetrail.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3 ready at Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:24:42 -0800 quit 221 bebo.firetrail.com closing connection (i typed the quit to logout) i dont know what MTA you may be using..i only have experience in sendmail. i cant imagine any SMTP servers out there that don't show some kind of welcome message. You can test your SMTP server by sending a mail using telnet. see this page for step-by-step instructions: http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/telnet.html send a mail to yourself then check to see if it arrived ok. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 1:17pm up 155 days, 1:22, 2 users, load average: 1.51, 1.62, 1.62