[thelist] php mail problem... someone please shoot me!

[Kid Stevens]

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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