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Michael E. McAteer
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:43 am Post subject:
SMTP Commands to test with |
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I'm having trouble sending mail to one domain and what to test SMTP
connections to their server. Can someone give me a list of commands to test
communications with? I seem to rember telnet to ipaddress:25 but forget what
to do from there.
Thanks,
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Michael E. McAteer
Network Engineer
MCSA, MCSE, CNA, A+
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Jim Schwartz
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:49 am Post subject:
Re: SMTP Commands to test with |
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nslookup
set q=mx
foo.com
You'll get a response of:
foo.com MX Preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.foo.com
mail.foo.com = 127.0.0.1
telnet 127.0.0.1 25
220 mail.foo.com ready
ehlo yourdomain.com
250
mail from:<you@yourdomain.com>
250 sender ok
rcpt to:<postmaster@foo.com>
250 recipient ok
data
354 enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
type what ever you want here..
..
250 ok
quit
221 closing connection
Done.
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| Quote: | I'm having trouble sending mail to one domain and what to test SMTP
connections to their server. Can someone give me a list of commands to
test
communications with? I seem to rember telnet to ipaddress:25 but forget
what
to do from there.
Thanks,
--
Michael E. McAteer
Network Engineer
MCSA, MCSE, CNA, A+ |
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Michael E. McAteer
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:57 am Post subject:
Re: SMTP Commands to test with |
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Thanks again Jim
"Jim Schwartz" wrote:
| Quote: | nslookup
set q=mx
foo.com
You'll get a response of:
foo.com MX Preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.foo.com
mail.foo.com = 127.0.0.1
telnet 127.0.0.1 25
220 mail.foo.com ready
ehlo yourdomain.com
250
mail from:<you@yourdomain.com
250 sender ok
rcpt to:<postmaster@foo.com
250 recipient ok
data
354 enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
type what ever you want here..
..
250 ok
quit
221 closing connection
Done.
"Michael E. McAteer" <MichaelEMcAteer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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I'm having trouble sending mail to one domain and what to test SMTP
connections to their server. Can someone give me a list of commands to
test
communications with? I seem to rember telnet to ipaddress:25 but forget
what
to do from there.
Thanks,
--
Michael E. McAteer
Network Engineer
MCSA, MCSE, CNA, A+
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supersizeme
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:
Re: SMTP Commands to test with |
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To send a test email to someone:
1. Open a command prompt
2. Type in the servers ip address, followed by a space, then "25" I.e.
192.168.1.1 25
3. type these commands:
a. HELO yourname.yourcompany.com <press enter>
b. MAIL FROM:yourname@yourcompany.com <press enter>
c. RCPT TO:recipentsname@recipentscompany.com <press enter>
d. DATA <press enter>
e. Subject: [type the subject line] <press enter>
f. <press enter again. This signifies the start of the body of the
message.>
g. Type your message <press enter>
f. Type a period (as in a ".") then, <press enter>. This signifes teh
end of the message.
Alternatively see this KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;153119
"Michael E. McAteer" <MichaelEMcAteer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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| Quote: | I'm having trouble sending mail to one domain and what to test SMTP
connections to their server. Can someone give me a list of commands to
test
communications with? I seem to rember telnet to ipaddress:25 but forget
what
to do from there.
Thanks,
--
Michael E. McAteer
Network Engineer
MCSA, MCSE, CNA, A+ |
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