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

[Brian Medley]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:50:09PM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote:

> >try telnet localhost mail
> 
> Telnet is turned off.  ssh user at localhost mail ?

The above mentioned command (telnet localhost mail) does not depend upon a
telnet server to be active.  It should even work if you have telnet
disabled at the firewall level.  What is happening is that you are making
attempting to establish a connection to the mail server running on your
computer.

This page describes it a little:

    http://members.tripod.com/~smanage/tel.html

One glaring error is that they write "telnet your.pop.server 25" when it
should be "telnet your.smtp.server 25".  In the above command
"your.smtp.sever" would be localhost.

This practice of telneting to the mail server is an extremely useful
debugging technique.

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