I ma just doing a telnet from the command prompt. IE "telnet ei8htlegs.net"
Sincerely, Grant Griffith EI8HT LEGS Enhanced Web Management http://www.getafreewebsite.com 877-483-3393 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Raykiewicz Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Testing Backup Email Server... you have to telnet to port 25. What telnet applications are you using? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Griffith - IMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:52 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Testing Backup Email Server... > OK, I can not figure out what is going on but I keep getting a "Could not > open a connection to host on port 23 : connection failed" message. I can > ping it fine. This is probably something very simple, but I am not able to > figure it out. Anyone help? > > > Sincerely, > Grant Griffith > EI8HT LEGS Enhanced Web Management > http://www.getafreewebsite.com > 877-483-3393 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Testing Backup Email Server... > > > Grant, > > Use Telnet to connect to secondary and compose a message to a user > (you) on the primary server. If accepted, great. Now use your e-mail > client to check the user account. The message should show up no later > than one queue interval after it was accepted (assuming all set > correctly and primary is up, message probably will show up right > away). Check the headers to see that it was routed via the secondary. > > You could down the SMTP on the primary (simulating a failure), then > send an email to a user (secondary should be used to deliver this > since the primary cannot be contacted). Once the primaries SMTP is > back up (give it at least a few minutes down), the message should > arrive (again, it may take one queue interval before it is delivered). > You may have to use an outside account to send the email, using this > method. Again, check headers to see how message was routed. > > Daniel Donnelly > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant Griffith - IMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:37 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] Testing Backup Email Server... > > > > Hello All, > > > > Is there an way to test that the backup email server is working > properly? I > > am setting up a backup email server using MS SMTP on a 2003 Server. > I think > > it is setup properly, but want to test it to make sure. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Sincerely, > > Grant Griffith > > EI8HT LEGS Enhanced Web Management > > http://www.getafreewebsite.com > > 877-483-3393 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
