Re: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:28:02 Bill Banks wrote:
 How do I turn on telnet for smtp? Im installing qmail


Telnet for SMTP?  Are you trying to connect to port 25 (SMTP) using a telnet 
client for testing purposes?  Don't install telnetd (telnet server), just use 
a telnet client:

telnet hostname 25

If the SMTP server is running and not blocked by a firewall, you should be 
able to connect to it that way on port 25.
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RE: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Banks
I cant do  telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25

try it from your

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Subject: Re: Telnet  smtp


On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:28:02 Bill Banks wrote:
 How do I turn on telnet for smtp? Im installing qmail


Telnet for SMTP?  Are you trying to connect to port 25 (SMTP) using a telnet
client for testing purposes?  Don't install telnetd (telnet server), just
use
a telnet client:

telnet hostname 25

If the SMTP server is running and not blocked by a firewall, you should be
able to connect to it that way on port 25.
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Re: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg


On Sep 16, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Bill Banks wrote:


I cant do  telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25


It appears that sarah.ourweb.net, 216.236.255.132, isn't listening on  
port 25.  Hold on, let me do a more complete scan.  (If you get  
indications of a scan from 72.64.112/29 please don't treat is as abuse).


You are running telnetd, but that only listens on port 23.  If you  
want to listen on port 25 you need to be running a mailserver.  Have  
you configured or enabled sendmail (or some other MTA) to listen for  
mail from the outside world?  What makes you believe that your system  
should be listening for SMTP traffic.


As an aside, since you are already running sshd, there really is no  
need to run telnetd.  I would recommend turning that off if there  
isn't a compelling need to run it.


-j


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RE: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Bill Banks
im running qmail

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http://www.ourwebtemplates.com


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Subject: Re: Telnet  smtp



On Sep 16, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Bill Banks wrote:

 I cant do  telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25

It appears that sarah.ourweb.net, 216.236.255.132, isn't listening on
port 25.  Hold on, let me do a more complete scan.  (If you get
indications of a scan from 72.64.112/29 please don't treat is as abuse).

You are running telnetd, but that only listens on port 23.  If you
want to listen on port 25 you need to be running a mailserver.  Have
you configured or enabled sendmail (or some other MTA) to listen for
mail from the outside world?  What makes you believe that your system
should be listening for SMTP traffic.

As an aside, since you are already running sshd, there really is no
need to run telnetd.  I would recommend turning that off if there
isn't a compelling need to run it.

-j


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RE: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 16, 2007 1:39:52 PM -0400 Bill Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:



im running qmail


First of all, stop top-posting.  It's very confusing.

Second, if you really do have qmail running (did you verify using ps -auxw 
| grep qmail? that's only one part of troubleshooting your problem.


1) Is qmail actually running?
2) Is qmail configured to listen on FQHN:25?
3) Is port 25 blocked by your firewall?
4) Is port 25 blocked by someone else's firewall?
5) If all of the above is ok, is qmail not responding for some reason?

IOW, you have only begun to troubleshoot.  Saying im running qmail is 
meaningless.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


Re: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:55:02 -0400
Bill Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I cant do  telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25
 
 try it from your
 

$ telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25
Trying 216.236.255.132...
Connected to sarah.ourweb.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sarah.ourweb.net ESMTP
helo xxx.example.com
250 sarah.ourweb.net



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