From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 12:17:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from patriarch.dnsalias.org (adsl-66-140-18-199.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [66.140.18.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493AB37B961 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from compgeek ([127.0.0.1]) by patriarch.dnsalias.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:11:55 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Jon Noack" To: "Stephen Hovey" , "David Banning" Cc: Subject: RE: can't telnet anything on port 25 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:11:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jun 2002 19:11:55.0067 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B7908B0:01C21C7C] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Port 25 is smtp (email) Yes, but you can still telnet to it (assuming it's running an external mail daemon and it's not firewalled). You can even send email. Here's a telnet to the localhost sendmail on my box: [noackjr@patriarch:~] $ telnet localhost 25 220 patriarch.dnsalias.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.3/8.12.3; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:07:57 -0500 (CDT) Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message