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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)
Date: 18 Dec 2000 08:49:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <whitoi419d.fsf@viffer.bang.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wvcyoftm.fsf@gnus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing>

>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:

> [...]
> Ekkkk.   I'll be damned:
>   bsd > telnet smtp.newsguy.com 25
>   Trying 209.155.56.71...
>   telnet: connect to address 209.155.56.71: Connection refused
>   telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
>   reader@satellite /anex/reader
> bsd > date
> Sun Dec 17 14:01:54 PST 2000


> And... Newsguy tech staff have told me over the phone that telnet is
> not allowed.

"telnet" may be, but telnetting to some other port should be possible
to distinguish from any other TCP connection to that port.

This is what happened when I tried it:

$ telnet smtp.newsguy.com smtp
Trying 209.155.56.71...
Connected to smtp.newsguy.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 newsguy.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.0/8.9.1; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:44:19 -0800 (PST)
ehlo viffer.metis.no
250-newsguy.com Hello [194.19.99.131], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 2000000
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250 HELP
quit
221 2.0.0 newsguy.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-18  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-17  8:29 Harry Putnam
2000-12-17  9:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 16:53   ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 19:44     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-19  0:13       ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-19  1:51         ` Glenn Shiffer
2000-12-19  2:41           ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 10:51 ` jas
2000-12-17 16:34 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-17 18:41   ` Simon Josefsson
2000-12-17 21:01     ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:14       ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 22:45         ` Colin Walters
2000-12-17 23:06           ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 21:24       ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 22:15         ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 22:26           ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:31             ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:41               ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:02           ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-18  7:49           ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2000-12-17 21:29   ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:45     ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:03       ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:20         ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:27         ` Russ Allbery

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