From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 12:19: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3BD37B946 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:16:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA40254; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:16:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:16:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Jon Noack Cc: David Banning , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: can't telnet anything on port 25 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > 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