mail from the command line ??

[bruce]

the process that i described works pretty much as i expect if i
substitue gmail - smtp.gmail.com:587 and the required/updated
user/passwd...

so it appears to be a yahoo issue.

either I don't have the correct smtp port (I think I do), or some
other attribute is screwed up.

-bruce


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mellertson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/14/2013 04:57 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:42:29PM -0400, bruce wrote:
>>> as a test, I have mailx (also have sendmail)
>> Of course, you can always do it the way we used to--still do for some
>> testing:
>>
>>     #telnet localhost 25
>>     220 foo.bar.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2ubuntu2; Mon 16 Sep
>>     2013 16:00:28 -0500; (No UCE/UBE) logging access from:
>>     localhost(OK)-localhost [127.0.0.1]
>>     HELO foo.bar.com
>>     250 foo.bar.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
>>     MAIL From:krod at foo.bar.com
>>     250 2.1.0 krod at foo.bar.com... Sender ok
>>     RCPT To:joker at batman.com
>>     250 2.1.5 joker at batman.com... Recipient ok
>>     DATA
>>     354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>     Well, Batman, I see you and Joker are friends now.
>>     .
>>     250 2.0.0 r8ELmS57124111 Message accepted for delivery
>>     quit
>>     Connection closed by foreign host.
>>     #
>>
>> In the above, the lines starting with codes are the responses from the MTA.
>>
>> Of course, there are some gotchas today.  It may not be on port 25.  You
>> may not have 'telnet', or have access to it.  And if the connection
>> requires authentication, there's more armwaving; for something like that,
>> see:
>>
>>   http://www.ndchost.com/wiki/mail/test-smtp-auth-telnet
>>
>> (I can do the above from memory; I have to look up the AUTH sequence.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>>       Dave "don't need no stinkin' MUA" Ihnat
>>       dihnat at dminet.com
> I think he may want to use EHLO foo.bar.com instead of "HELO
> foo.bar.com" to see the security options.
>
> Mikkel
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