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.
next prev 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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