aphro wrote: > 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
Can`t pretend to really understand this but here`s a copy of what I`ve tried and the results: FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul hello . paul... Connecting to local... paul... Sent FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet smtp.freeisp.co.uk Trying 216.22.209.82... Connected to smtp.freeisp.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. Do not attempt to login unless authorized to do so! Username: Username: telnet> q Connection closed. FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to dial.pipex.com. Escape character is '^]'. mail... Recipient names must be specified ^] telnet> q Connection closed. To save confusion the last reference to "dial.pipex.com" is because I put this in /etc/hosts because I read that putting any domain name that looked qualified in there stopped the $j error message in sendmailconfig - which it did. Does this mean that sendmail isn`t listening to port 25? If so where do I tell it to? Thanks again. Paul
