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What is SMTP?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 822)
$ telnet kailash smtp
Trying 144.16.111.2...
Connected to kailash.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 kailash.cse.iitb.ernet.in ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 18:00:35 +0530 (IST)
helo siva-pc
250 kailash.cse.iitb.ernet.in Hello siva-pc [144.16.111.81], pleased to meet you
mail from:<siva@cse.iitb.ernet.in>
250 <siva@cse.iitb.ernet.in>... Sender ok
rcpt to:<seshadri>
250 <seshadri>... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
hi this is a test mail. please ignore.
Siva. (siva@cse.iitb.ernet.in)
.
250 SAA03539 Message accepted for delivery
quit
221 kailash.cse.iitb.ernet.in closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.



Sridhar Iyer
2001-01-08