Can you log on to your mail server and telnet to localhost?

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From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

Close, but it won't let me put in invalid data.  The error I'm trying to track 
down is:
"Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname"
I think it is coming from a blank or non-existent RCPT TO: field

My ISP is claiming their stand-in is getting these bounced back to them when 
they relay for us and my server is bouncing the message.  They say it is 
creating a loop.  If I could see what was bouncing and why, I could try to 
configure it to drop instead of bounce.

Bill



From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

Ive used this.
http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: remotely testing smtp

Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP session 
remotely?  My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail server and I would 
like to verify it.  I tried telneting in from home but my home ISP blocks 
traffic on port 25.  I can't test from inside my firewall because my firewall 
provides SMTP proxy which is probably the culprit.  But my question is, without 
trying out all of my friend's ISPs until one lets me through, is there a 
service I can use to open a SMTP session from my desk and have it run commands 
and show me a session log?  Legitimate mail won't work because I need to send a 
non-compliant mail that will bounce to verify the error.

Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.

Thanks for any ideas

Bill







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