OK it's my mistake ... :-( many thanks -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Pennace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2001 13:54 An: Thomas König Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: Re: can't receive mails via telnet on port 25 On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Thomas König wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed qmail, ezmlm and vpopmail on redhat 6.2. > > Now I make some tests. > Sending mails on the machine himself it's ok. > e.g. local user to virtuell pop user and return. > > test via telnet will not work: > > user@anyhost:~ > telnet 10.10.4.4 25 > Trying 10.10.4.4... > Connected to 10.10.4.4. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 host.domain.de ESMTP > helo dude > 250 host.domain.de > mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > rcpt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok Of course it's not working, your rcpt command is flawed. Try: MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>