From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 05:43:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28355 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:43:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28335 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA02354; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:38:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA25880; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:43:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id IAA03928; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:43:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:43:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801171343.IAA03928@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Question In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 16 January, 1998, at 01:51 (+0100) Leif Neland wrote: > At 15 Jan 98 19:11:33 Dan Busarow wrote regarding Re: sendmail Question > > DB> From memory a cron entry like > DB> > DB> */15 * * * * telnet your.isp smtp;echo ehlo your.domain;echo > DB> etrn @your.domain; sleep 5; echo quit > DB> > DB> should connect and have your ISP send all your mail. > > I don't think so. But you _will_ get lots of mail. Containing the lines ehlo > your.domain, etrn @your.domain, quit. > > You need to feed this into telnet, including the sleep; not a straightforward > thing. The netcat (`nc') utility is far better suited for this sort of thing than telnet. See the ports collection. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity; the rest is overhead for the operating system.