05-05-2002
Well, I am not literally trying to forge mail. What I am trying to do is send E-mail from Linux. And my Web Host Provider does NOT provide an SMTP outgoing mail server. They only cost $12 a year for unlimited space and bandwidth, so that is one of the downsides.
And I don't know of any ISP that allows you to send mail through thier SMTP that does not have thier @address on the E-mail. So basically what I am understanding is that even though SENDMAIL says you can use a dial-up connection, you really can't??
I'm stumped. Sendmail seems to want a DNS to work correctly, but ISP's don't want to give you access to their DNS directly.
Oh well, guess I'll look for another alternative.
Thanks anyway...
Gregg
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NAME
mconnect - connect to SMTP mail server socket
SYNOPSIS
mconnect [-p port] [-r] [hostname]
DESCRIPTION
The mconnect utility opens a connection to the mail server on a given host, so that it can be tested independently of all other mail soft-
ware. If no host is given, the connection is made to the local host. Servers expect to speak the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on
this connection. Exit by typing the quit command. Typing EOF sends an end of file to the server. An interrupt closes the connection immedi-
ately and exits.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-p port Specify the port number instead of the default SMTP port (number 25) as the next argument.
-r "Raw" mode: disable the default line buffering and input handling. This produces an effect similar to telnet(1) to port
number 25.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
hostname The name of a given host.
USAGE
The mconnect command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.hf help file for SMTP commands
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
telnet(1), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), ip6(7P)
Postel, Jonathan B., RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, August
1982.
SunOS 5.10 9 Nov 1999 mconnect(1)