Steve Thompson wrote the following on 10/16/2012 7:45 AM: > 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 > 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.