On 2/27/2011 4:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Noel Jones:
$ openssl s_client -quiet -starttls smtp -connect host:587
helo client.example.com
mail from:<xxx>
Caution: s_client uses R and Q for itself, so send lower case commands
(rcpt to and quit).
Wietse
I believe "r" and "q" are reserved also. Attempting a full
They are not reserved on my machine.
I just tested it, and indeed lower-case letters worked fine
for an smtp test.
I could have sworn that this was a problem, and the
documentation appears to support that claim. Oh well.
What tipped me off was that the documentation said R and Q. Taking
documentation literally as I usually do :-), I then confirmed that
lowercase input indeed works as documented.
Wietse
Perhaps surprisingly, same here. The docs I checked for
s_client listed no magic keys and referred me to s_server; the
s_server docs clearly stated that [QqRrPS] have special meaning.
But I think we can drop this now.
-- Noel Jones
