[thelist] php mail problem... someone please shoot me!
Kid Stevens
kstevens89 at comcast.net
Mon Sep 9 23:16:00 CDT 2002
Telnet into it first. You can Telnet to the IP address and port of
the SMTP server or it's DNS name and not use a port number. Say
smtp.mydomain.edu would produce the same effect as Telnet
127.0.0.1:25. After each line hit return or whatever your keyboard
has above right shift.
At 3:14 PM -0700 9/9/02, Pablo Oliva wrote:
>Robert, I apologize for my ignorance but the commands that you gave me:
>
>> TELNET 127.0.0.1 25
>> HELO
>> Mail From:poliva at cox.net
>> Rcpt To:poliva at cox.net
>> DATA
>> Subject: Test
>> Blah blah blah blah
>>
>> .
>>
>> (That's: CR dot CR to end the data stream) After which
>> you should see either an acknowledgement or denial and
> > perhaps a verbose reason for the failure.
>
>Would I telnet into port 25 first and then go ahead and enter the rest
>of the commands, or do I need to send the whole string as one command...
>I hope that I am making myself clear. The reason that I ask is that I
>am using putty telnet as the client, and I need to connect first to
>127.0.0.1 on port 25, and then it gives me a "terminal window" to enter
>the rest of the commands. When I attempt to connect though the
>connection is refused.
>
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Kid Stevens
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