Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
Use telnet from the command line to see if anything is listening on
the suspected ports.
$ telnet localhost 0
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
.
.
.
$ telnet localhost 24
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 myComputerIPv4.dslextreme.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1; Thu, 21
Feb 2008 18:34:08 -0800
Do I need sendmail? Is that something that is necessary for
Thunderbird? Or is this something that allows me to operate an email
server?
By the way, how do I break the connection between telnet and port 25?
My command prompt hasn't returned. ^C, ^D, ^Z don't work. I could just
close the VT, but I don't want a telnet zombie.
Sendmail, when on a workstation, etc. that is not running a mail server,
is used for sending mail to local accounts for things such as cron jobs
and Logwatch.
Once connected to sendmail, you can disconnect with the SMTP command
QUIT. You can also use it to send mail, if you know the protocol (which
is easily referenced from many web sites).
Also, <CTRL+]> would have broken the connection (the '^]' means to type
the control character ']').
PGA
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