DPotW: swaks
Description: SMTP command-line test tool swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) is a command-line tool written in Perl for testing SMTP setups; it supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH (PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, SPA, and DIGEST-MD5). swaks allows to stop the SMTP dialog at any stage, e.g to check RCPT TO: without actually sending a mail. . If you are spending too much time iterating "telnet foo.example 25" swaks is for you.
A very important tool which makes debugging e-mail a breeze. A must for every mail admin.
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Carsten on :
thanks a lot for this great tip
Maurice Massar on :
alternative:
smtptest, part of cyrus clients (any version), which cointains test-clients for other protocols (pop3, imap, lmtp) too..
James on :
You should submit this to debaday.deban.net