This is quick writeup which describes connecting to a mail server and sending a test message using telnet.
Telnet to the mail server.
telnet mail.somedomain.com 25
You should recieve a reply to this effect.
Trying 10.10.10.10...
Connected to mail.somedomain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.somedomain.com ESMTP Exim 4.04 Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:27:42 -0700
HELO mail.someotherdomain.com
You should get back something to the effect of this.250 mail.somedomain.com Hello mail.someotherdomain.com [10.10.10.20]
Now send your "From" command. This is the person the e-mail is from.MAIL FROM:<Jim@someotherdomain.com>
You should get the following back.250 OK
Then send your RCPT command. This is the person recieving the e-mail.RCPT TO:<Joe@somedomain.com>
You should get the following back.250 OK
Then send your DATA command. This is the body of your e-mail.DATA
You should get back something from the server that looks like this.354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Now to create the body of the message. Put in the subject line and the message. Then put a period by itself as the last line and hit the "enter" key to finish.
Subject:Test Message
This is a test message.
.
250 OK: queued as 18C6vd0005Ey-00
Then type your last command to finish your session.QUIT
You will see the connection end221 mailhub.somedomain.com closing connection Connection closed by foreign host
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