urgent help

Hello!

i did set up my email server with a nice tutorial. then i wanted to try
smtp:

xxx:/# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 xxx.serverkompetenz.net ESMTP
helo a3s.home
250 xxx.serverkompetenz.net
mail from: root@a3s.home
MAIL FROM: <root@a3s.home>
quit

after "mail from" it doesnt work any more, i can write whatever I want,
no reaction.

Please i would need to know 2 things:
- how can i quit
- what did i make wrong (also only suggestions are good)

thank you for helping a newbie

flosbrot

I was able to open another ssh and to kill telnet.

so just the second question, what could me wrong with the seup of
postfix?

Thank you very much in advance,

flosbrot

On 15 Feb 2006 05:25:03 -0800, flosbrot@gmail.com <flosbrot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> i did set up my email server with a nice tutorial. then i wanted to try
> smtp:
> 250 xxx.serverkompetenz.net
> mail from: root@a3s.home
> MAIL FROM: <root@a3s.home>
> quit
>
> after "mail from" it doesnt work any more, i can write whatever I want,
> no reaction.

You are, at this point, typing the body of your email message. It won't
"quit" until it sees the "OK, I'm done" sequence, which is a blank line
followed by a dot by itself, like this:

..

so "quit" as above isn't a command to postfix (sendmail works the same
way of course), it's just content of your mail message.

> Please i would need to know 2 things:
> - how can i quit

See above.

> - what did i make wrong (also only suggestions are good)

Not a thing, just didn't finish the message.

> thank you for helping a newbie

No problem. We all started out that way.

Dave Hinz