Send/Recieve email using Telnet

Send mail through SMTP using Telnet

Telnet to the server via port 25.

1. Type “EHLO example.com” and hit enter.

2.  “MAIL FROM: sender@domain.com” and hit enter.

3.  “RCPT TO: recipient@domain.com” and hit enter.

4.  “DATA” and hit enter.

5. Type your message body and hit enter.

6. Key in ” . ” and press enter to exit.

You will recieve the mail.


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Example:

root@test.com]# telnet 192.168.0.25 25
Trying 192.168.0.25...
Connected to 192.168.0.25 (192.168.0.25).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 test.tt.example.com ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.6713 ready at Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:39:17 +0800
EHLO Vsource.com
250-smtp11.klk.example.com Hello [192.168.0.192]
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-TURN
250-ATRN
250-SIZE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8bitmime
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-VRFY
250 OK
MAIL FROM: abhi@example.com
250 2.1.0 abhi@example.com....Sender OK
RCPT TO: abhi_tt@example.com
250 2.1.5 abhi_tt@example.com
DATA
354 Start mail input; end with .
this is a test over SMTP
.
250 2.6.0 Queued mail for delivery
quit
221 2.0.0 smtp11.klk.example.com Service closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@test.com]#