You could telnet to my port 25 and you would be disconnected immediately, no
extra carriage return required ;-)
I'm struggling with getting my system running with QMail for this very
reason.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peeter Pirn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Closing SMTP connection
>
>
> When telnetting to port 25, why do I have to type an extra ENTER to
> disconnect from qmail-smtpd? Is this an RFC-compliance issue?
>
> telnet mail.fwi.com 25
> Trying 209.84.160.144...
> Connected to mail.fwi.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.fwi.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Thu, 17 Jun 1999
> 11:07:22 -0500 (ES
> T)
> quit <== I type
> 221 mail.fwi.com closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> telnet faxsrv.fwi.com 25
> Trying 209.84.160.13...
> Connected to faxsrv.fwi.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 FWI mail server - qmail 1.03 ESMTP
> quit <== I type
> 221 FWI mail server - qmail 1.03
> <== I also type ENTER (LF?) here (not necessary for
> sendmail)
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
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> Peeter Pirn, Sys Admin, FWI Internet, 219-426-7701 x17
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