also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.01.11.0342 +0100]: > 220 dman.ddts.net ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:29:31 -0500 > HELO <my host name> > 250 dman.ddts.net Hello dman at dman.ddts.net [127.0.0.1] > MAIL FROM: dsh8290@rit.edu > 250 <dsh8290@rit.edu> is syntactically correct > RCPT TO: <maddduck@madduck.net> > 250 <maddduck@madduck.net> is syntactically correct > DATA > 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself > From: dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> > Subject: this is an email :-) > Date: yeah, yeah > > this is the message body > . > 250 OK id=16OrSl-0001HR-00 > QUIT > 221 dman.ddts.net closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. shouldn't i have gotten that message? or did you tweak Exim temporarily to not deliver it? > I did this via telnet (but sent the message to myself, and rewrote the > addresses above). aaaah! > The mail message is between "DATA" and ".". The > error you got is from HELO (or EHLO if you're using ESMTP as described > by RFC2821). [omit rest of this excellent reply] dman and others, please consider my reply as invalid. it's funny that i wrote it before reading dman's post, and that we basically both say exactly the same things, but dman's is so much more articulate and researched. <bow> dman: do we actually have lives of our own, or do we live for debian-*@lists.debian.org? i kinda do these days :) it's fun though! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck wind catches lily, scattering petals to the ground. segmentation fault.
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