16 Oct
2012
16 Oct
'12
2:02 p.m.
Steve Thompson wrote the following on 10/16/2012 7:45 AM:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, John Reddy wrote:
[root@mydomain ccc]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. EHLO MAIL FROM: me@gmail.com RCPT TO: me@gmail.com DATA testing from server . ^] but I never get back to a command prompt. Please advise.
(1) EHLO usually takes an argument (2) QUIT is missing
-s
There's also no server greeting or server acknowledgement to any of your commands the client entered. Were they removed or were they never present? It doesn't look like a working SMTP server is accepting your connection.