Re: Testing tmda-ofmipd

[email protected] (Jason R. Mastaler)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.tmda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Leangen <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm trying to figure out a way to test my setup to see why things are
> not working.
>
> I'm using telnet for this (as suggested also on the wiki) like so:
>
> $ telnet hrothgar 8025
> Trying 128.165.147.60...
> Connected to hrothgar.la.mastaler.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 hrothgar.la.mastaler.com ESMTP tmda-ofmipd
>
> I then try logging in like so:
>
> LOGIN username password
>
>
> But get this reply:
>
> 502 Error: command "LOGIN" not implemented
>
> So, obviously this is not correct.
>
> How do you suggest that I test the service via telnet?

Don't test the service using telnet.  The example in the wiki just
shows that tmda-ofmipd answers on the specified port.  To test more
than that it's best to just start it in a terminal using -f -d, and
try to send mail through it.  You'll be able to view the debugging
output in that terminal.
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