On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Susan Day <suzieprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've not done this before. Here's what I did. Please see if this > looks correct: > > [root]# telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 > Trying 209.216.9.56... > Connected to mail.mydomain.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP > HELO mail.mydomain.com > 250 mail.mydomain.com > MAIL FROM suzie at mydomain.com > 250 ok > RCPT TO suzieprogrammer at gmail.com > 250 ok > DATA testing > 354 go ahead > . > 250 ok 1267194591 qp 11432 > quit > 221 mail.mydomain.com > Connection closed by foreign host. > [root]# You didn't create a body to your email! The proper way to send an email through SMTP is: DATA 354 go ahead From: "Susan Day" <suzie at mydomain.com> To: "Susan Day" <susieprogrammer at gmail.com> Subject: Test This is a test only a test. . 250 ok 1267194591 qp 11432 quit -Ross -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100226/53f0b194/attachment-0005.html>