On Feb 27, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > jeffrey j donovan: >> greetings >> how can i test submission to port 587 from command line ? >> >> I am setting up a relay for my some users to use when they are off site. >> Those that have verizon need to use 587 >> I want to watch each step through so that i can make sure I have a clean >> path. > > If the port requires TLS: > > $ openssl s_client -quiet -starttls smtp -connect host:587 > helo client.example.com > mail from:<xxx> > etc. > > Otherwise: > > $ telnet host 587 > helo client.example.com > mail from:<xxx> > etc. > > Wietse
thank you all looks like Im working on TLS clients for the moment. and it helped to enable 465 okay so after the STARTTLS and I issue an ELHO then what? what commands are available from this point, what is a graceful exit ? from what I understand is that each side has to decide what to do either "do something" or quit. im reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3207 tia -j
