Very often it is necessary to test that your SMTP server is working.
The easiest way to do this is with the telnet command.
This lets you talk directly to the email server in its own SMTP protocol script language.
Here’s how…
telnet server name or IP address 25
HELO aaaa
mail from: <tom@fromdomain.com>
rcpt to: <fred@todomain.com>
data
Enter your message text
.
quit
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There are a huge range of email server products available.
I won’t beat around the bush, in my honest opinion, most Postfix based systems are by far the most practical and effective. The main reason for this is that Postfix is free and flexible.
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Built the server from scratch, installed CentOS4 (soon to be upgraded to CentOS5), configured (A)pache, (M)ySQL and (P)HP (Linux AMP or LAMP).
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