Re: [exim] Re: smtp authorization test via telnet?

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Author: Jakob Hirsch
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To: meburke
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: smtp authorization test via telnet?
meburke@??? wrote:

> terminal window. Although I've telnetted to port 25 thousands of times on
> thousands of servers, I've seldom run across a session that didn't let me send
> mail outside the domain after authenticating with POP3.


You can have that with Exim, too, but I'd rather not support obsolete hacks.

> With the other MTA's I test, I can emulate the account I'm mailing from and see
> the results in gory detail. I haven't found a way to do that yet using exim, so
> I thought I'd ask here since this group seems well-informed.


exim -bh client.ip.ad.dress
exim -f sender@address -bt recipient@somewhere

Exim's man page lists a bunch of additional options...