Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Check the Postfix SMTP connection

Now, lets check the Postfix SMTP connection. The example below, we telnet to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 25 (smtp), then we using user account Jane to sent an email to James.



telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.1a-centosserver.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo mail
250-mail.1a-centosserver.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
mail from:<jane>
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to:<james>
250 2.1.5 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
This is a test mail send from Jane
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 8E93F27DF3
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

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