smtptest

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rpert

I see references made in an old thread 42624 about a script named smtptest for testing SMTP over telnet.

I can't find it in ports or by searching in Freshports.org. It's on github at: github.com/RayViljoen/smtp-test

Does anyone know which port includes this smtptest program, or if it has been ported?
 
Why rely on a script anyway? Its extremely easy to set this up from mind. The less you need to rely on pre-made stuff, the easier any troubleshooting will be:

Code: 
macron:/home/peter $ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 macron.intranet.lan ESMTP Postfix
helo localhost
250 macron.intranet.lan
mail from: peter@intranet.lan
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: peter@intranet.lan
250 2.1.5 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: Hello Peter!
Hello :)
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 3F396808D
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

So just remember helo, mail from, rcpt to and data. Optionally followed by the Subject keyword, and end with a mere . to indicate the end of your SMPT sequence.
 
ShelLuser said:
Why rely on a script anyway? Its extremely easy to set this up from mind. The less you need to rely on pre-made stuff, the easier any troubleshooting will be:
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True, however using telnet by hand gets tedious using TLS with SASL authentication. AFAIK it's impossible over ipv6 as openssl s_client -connect doesn't support it yet. I too prefer to do as much as possible manually it's just that mail/swaks supports IPv6 and TLS and handles the base64 encoding of passwords.
 
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