Need to test out access to a mail server?
From GNU/linux is easiest, fire up the terminal
You will need your username and password as base64, to get these use perl
perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("username");'
perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("password");'
Save this output to use later
telnet mail.yourserver.com 25
EHLO mail.yourserver.com
AUTH LOGIN
[paste in your base64 username]
[paste in your base64 password]
Now you know if your server is working with those access details or not...
Thanks NDCHost
http://www.ndchost.com/wiki/mail/test-smtp-auth-telnet
From GNU/linux is easiest, fire up the terminal
You will need your username and password as base64, to get these use perl
perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("username");'
perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("password");'
Save this output to use later
telnet mail.yourserver.com 25
EHLO mail.yourserver.com
AUTH LOGIN
[paste in your base64 username]
[paste in your base64 password]
Now you know if your server is working with those access details or not...
Thanks NDCHost
http://www.ndchost.com/wiki/mail/test-smtp-auth-telnet