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"J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818" <JLW_at_psulias.psu.edu> said:

> I find that I can use
>
> cURL telnet://servername:25
>
> and cURL telnet://servername:110
>
> to get the salutations from the SMTP and POP3 servers that I want
> to test. What I can't seem to do is to get the connection, once
> the salutation has been secured, to DISCONNECT. All I can do is
> abort the cURL program, resulting of course in loss of any output
> from the -o, --dump-header or sysout assigned files.

I find that the salutation isn't send before you send a command.
So this
  echo HELO foo | curl --data-ascii - telnet://smtp-server:25

works kindof, but it disconnects too soon. I.e. when curl reads EOF
from stdin it seems. Maybe you can make it delay a bit longer?

--gv

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Received on 2004-02-05