SMTP Server Re: [wplug] Mail server question (dumb one)

[Lance Tost]

try telnet localhost mail


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Russ Schneider wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:53:12 -0400
> From: Russ Schneider <russpgh at stargate.net>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: SMTP Server Re: [wplug] Mail server question (dumb one)
> 
> Patryk Laurent wrote:
> > Russ,
> > 
> > Is your RedHat box running "sendmail" or some other SMTP server?  That is, 
> > can you connect to its port 25?  If not, my guess is that you'll want to 
> > either set up sendmail on your box, or see if there's a php.ini setting 
> > that lets you point to your ISP's SMTP server.
> 
> I ran top and sendmail is running.
> 
> What do you mean "connect to port 25"?  I tried ssh russ at server.com:25 
> and it said name or service unknown.
> 
> 
> 

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