Re: [Sheflug] (no subject)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

If I had another email account that I used, I would try and get myself
banned by mailling administration [at] ecosse.net, pretending to be
administration@ecosse.net :-)

Unfortunately, I need my ecosse.net account (for now).

Baz. (The real one :-)

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "David" == David Morris <david [at] allvac.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     David> I thought you were running QMail?
> 
> Me?  Never.  Or did you think that was baz?  Uh-uh.
> 
>     >> X-MTA: telnet :-)
>     >> Sender: stephen [at] xemacs.org
> 
> Real men use `telnet ... smtp'.
> 
> Here's the short course in SMTP 101, typos and all.  All you need to
> do to relay through ecosse.net is to _say_ you're from ecosse.net.
> Conversely, if you really _are_ from ecosse.net but don't say you are,
> you lose.  :-(
> 
> Sad, isn't it?
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> steve [at] turnbull:steve$ telnet ecosse.net 25
> Trying 62.172.47.250...
> Connected to ecosse.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 ecosse.net InterChange ESMTP v3.61.01 Ready
> HELO flux.localdomain
> 250 Ok, hello flux.localdomain.
> MAIL FROM baz [at] flux.localdomain
> 500 Unknown Command:  MAIL FROM baz [at] flux.localdomain
> MAIL FROM: baz [at] flux.localdomain
> 250 baz [at] flux.localdomain ... Sender Ok
> RCPT TO: TheEnglishman [at] Ecosse.net
> 250 <TheEnglishman> ... Recipient Ok
> DATA
> 354 Ok, end with "." on a new line...
> Test mail from stephen [at] xemacs.org.

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