Re: (no subject)

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:21, Alexander Henry wrote:
> keith smith wrote:
> > When you say open a connection are you talking telnet?
>
> Nope, SMTP. SMTP is a protocol which is just about as "open" as telnet,
> though. PERL has CPAN modules which "just does it".
> MIME::Entity->build() followed by Net::SMTP->new() then
> $smtp->data($mime->stringify()) then $smtp->dataend().

You need to be a little careful when talking about TELNET to differentiate the
protocol from the utility. You can indeed use the 'telnet' utility to open
an SMTP connection to an MTA. I do that all the time for testing purposes.

$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 workstation.local ESMTP Postfix
EHLO test.org
250-workstation.local
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250 8BITMIME
MAIL FROM: kurt
250 Ok
RCPT TO: kurt
250 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: Just a test
From: Some User <kurt@somewhere>

hi
.
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