Paul G. Allen wrote:
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.
So basically, yes, I need sendmail on my system.
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).
But you have to know SMTP stuff. Hmmm.
Also, <CTRL+]> would have broken the connection (the '^]' means to
type the control character ']').
PGA
Hmmm. All the things I didn't even know I didn't know.
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Ralph
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