[CLUE-Tech] How to verify SMTP config

[Jeffery Cann]

On Monday 23 June 2003 02:25 pm, Matt Gushee wrote:

> > and I'll use telnet
>                ^^^^^^
> Isn't that spelled S-S-H?

Matt,

I think he meant to use telnet to the SMTP port (25) and see if you can 
connect, i.e.,

	$ telnet blah.com 25

You should see something like:

	$ telnet blah.com 25
	Trying x.xx.x.xx...
	Connected to blah.com
	Escape character is '^]'.
	220 blah.com ESMTP
	quit

After the 220, you can submit SMTP commands if you wish.  Generally, simply 
connecting is good enough as it tests your xinetd (or *gasp* inetd) 
configuration for SMTP daemon.

But:
	$ ssh blah.com 25 

does not work - ssh tries to run '25' as a command (makes sense because sshd 
is listening on only one port).

HTH
Jeff
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