Using telnet to test SMTP server

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By this you should understand why you need it, so here is just a bunch of commands, mainly for myself, so I don’t loose them. 😉

[user@fedora9 user]$ telnet mail.example.com 25
Trying 192.0.2.10...
Connected to mail.example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
EHLO test.example.com
250-mail.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 30720000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN CRAM-MD5
250-AUTH=LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN CRAM-MD5
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
250 2.1.5 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: Testmessage

This is a test.

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250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 83398728027
QUIT
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
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