On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, John Reddy wrote: > [root at 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 at gmail.com > RCPT TO: me at 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