telnet port 25 script

[Michael Skora]

Hi anyone - I thought it would be easy to send a message from HP-UX 10.20 using the following script called "magic3":

telnet 193.0.9.27 25 <

[Jeff Schussele]

Michael,

Not 100% sure but try blank lines before & after the ".".

HTH,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

If that doesn't work - try
\015\012 on lines before & after.

Jeff

[Michael Skora]

Thanks Jeff, but no work. In fact, with the extra blank lines, it now takes two Ctrl-C's to complete the script.

[Michael Skora]

Jeff - that didn't work either. But when I Ctrl-C's, the message went through and was:
test
\015\012

[Jeff Schussele]

Ok - is the mail server local ie the same system you run this script on?

Jeff

[Michael Skora]

Well, the Exchange server is on the same LAN if that's what you mean.

[harry d brown jr]

Michael,

Use perl and it's telnet modules.

http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Net/Telnet.html

http://www.perlfect.com/articles/telnet.shtml

http://modperl.com:9000/perl_networking/sample/ch6.html

live free or die
harry

[Jeff Schussele]

What kind of system you running this on.
If UNIX what is it - do:
#uname -a

also do:
# echo $SHELL

You're not getting out of the script - need more info.

Jeff

[Michael Skora]

Jeff -

# uname -a gives:
HP-UX hawk04uk B.10.20 U 9000/859 1439525301 unlimited-user license

# echo $SHELL gives:
/sbin/sh