telling sendmail version by telnet

[Victor_5]

I remember there is one way to tell what is the current sendmail version by using telnet, but I forgot it, anybody can help?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Victor:

You can do:

# sendmail -bs < /dev/null

Regards!

...JRF...

[Helen French]

Hi Victor:

# sendmail -di

HTH,
Shiju

[Barry O Flanagan · Accepted solution]

Telnet onto potr 25 of the machine in question:

telnet 25

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Victor,

After telnetting to port 25 on the host enter
EHLO
This should give the version.

HTH,
Jeff

[Victor_5]

James & Shiju:

Your answers are corrent, but I was looking for telnet method, so I gave you 4 points, thanks.