On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:50, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > ( sleep 3 ; echo "HELO rainier" ; sleep 2 ; echo "MAIL FROM: > " ; sleep 1 ; echo "RCPT TO: "; > sleep 1 ; echo "DATA" ; sleep 1 ; echo "Subject: subject here" ; echo ; > echo "." ; sleep 1 ; echo "QUIT" ) | telnet mail.host.somewhere 25 Cool script. When I try it the smtp server chokes on the formatting of the sender and recipient addresses. I did: ( sleep 5 ; echo "HELO foo" ; sleep 5 ; echo -E "MAIL FROM: " ; sleep 5 ; echo -E "RCPT TO: "; sleep 5 ; echo "DATA" ; sleep 5 ; echo "Subject: foobar" ; echo ; echo "." ; sleep 5 ; echo "QUIT" ) | telnet smtp.isp.net 25 >From a sniffer I can see it connect and pass HELO with a 250 (ok) response from the SMTP server. However, the script then sends something like "MAIL FROM: kevin\377\355\377...", which the server rejects with "550 Sender address is invalid". Is that ISO encoding or something? I tried escaping the '@' character like this "MAIL FROM: " with no luck. I also tried echo -e and echo -E. If I telnet to port 25 on the SMTP server and type all this by hand it works perfectly. Hmmm, seen this before? ...Kevin --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss