{"id":11,"date":"2010-12-22T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.wordpress.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:32:55","slug":"how-to-send-mail-using-telnet-this-is-to-test-smtp-mail-sending-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"How to send mail using Telnet (This is to test SMTP mail sending issues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><strong>Open a Command Prompt and type the following to test sending mail using SMTP:<br \/>\n<\/strong>(This is used to test that SMTP is working and that port 25 is open.)<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>telnet mail.domain.ext 25<br \/>\nHELO<br \/>\nMAIL FROM: mail@domain.ext\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>(this\u00a0 e-mail address should be the address from the domain that you are testing from)<\/em><br \/>\nRCPT TO: mail@otherdomain.ext<br \/>\nDATA<br \/>\nSubject:-type subject here- then press enter twice (these are needed to conform to RFC 882)<br \/>\nTo tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single &#8220;.&#8221; on a line on it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open a Command Prompt and type the following to test sending mail using SMTP: (This is used to test that SMTP is working and that port 25 is open.) \u00a0 telnet mail.domain.ext 25 HELO MAIL FROM: mail@domain.ext\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (this\u00a0 e-mail address should be the address from the domain that you are testing from) RCPT TO: mail@otherdomain.ext DATA Subject:-type subject here- then press enter twice (these are needed to conform to RFC 882) To tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single &#8220;.&#8221; on a line on it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[124,370,131],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telnet","tag-send-mail-using-telnet","tag-telnet","tag-test-smtp-with-telnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}