Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:16:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@compgeek.com> Cc: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: can't telnet anything on port 25 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10206251515280.6582-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <NFBBIJDHKLKEJHKFMLBHGEPECBAA.noackjr@compgeek.com>
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Oh of source, if sendmail or something is running on it. That was the point I didnt explicitely make - On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jon Noack wrote: > > 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 > <snip> > 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
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