Re: [webmin-l] Monitor emails not working?

[Zeno <ze...@bi...>]

Edward Dekkers wrote:
> Have you tried going through your LOCAL smtp server manually? This is the
> way I use to diagnose bare bones postfix setup problems. In your case
> sendmail.
>
> NOTE: This is an extract from http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html
> with a few spelling mistakes fixed
>
> Below, replace mail.domain.ext with your local address
>
> telnet mail.domain.ext 25
> You should receive a reply like:
> Trying ???.???.???.???...
> Connected to mail.domain.ext.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.domain.ext ESMTP Sendmail ?version-number?; ?date+time+gmtoffset?
>
> You will then need to declare where you are sending the email from:
> HELO local.domain.name - don't worry too much about your local domain name
> although you really should use your exact fully qualified domain name as
> seen by the outside world the mail server has no choice but to take your
> word for it as of RFC822-RFC1123.
> This should give you:
> 250 mail.domain.ext Hello local.domain.name [loc.al.i.p], pleased to meet
> you
>
> Now give your email address:
> MAIL FROM: mail@domain.ext
> Should yield:
> 250 2.1.0 mail@domain.ext... Sender ok
>
> Now give the recipients address:
> RCPT TO: mail@otherdomain.ext
> Should yield:
> 250 2.1.0 mail@otherdomain.ext... Recipient ok
>
> To start composing the message issue the command DATA
>
> If you want a subject for your email type Subject:-type subject here- then
> press enter twice (these are needed to conform to RFC 882)
>
> You may now proceed to type the body of your message (e.g. hello
> mail@otherdomain.ext from mail@domain.ext)
>
> To tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single
> "." on a line on its own.
> The mail server should reply with: 250 2.0.0 ???????? Message accepted for
> delivery
>
> You can close the connection by issuing the QUIT command.
> The mail server should reply with something like:221 2.0.0 mail.domain.ext
> closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
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Hm, I'm getting a "Relaying denied" error on the RCPT part. But I don't 
use my own SMTP server, I use my ISPs. From what I understand, this test 
is testing my own server. As I mentioned earlier, the server can send 
out emails just fine using my ISPs SMTP server.