[net.mail] Testing an SMTP server

kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) (07/11/85)

I tried both user@18.56.0.4 and user@[18.56.0.4]; neither worked
(possibly due to the way the software here is set up).  Perhaps
I should explain my motivation; I wrote an SMTP server running
on the given machine (which is actually on the MIT Sloan School
Ethernet, not project Athena's) and I want to test it out.
Specifically, I want to test it with other people's SMTP senders.
Unfortunately, Sloan.MIT.EDU (as it will be called) is not yet
in any host table, so I can't just mail to myself.  

If anyone can suggest a way to tickle sendmail on a BSD 4.2 machine,
please post me.  If anyone can do this on there machine, I invite
you to mail to kevin@Sloan.MIT.EDU, aka 18.56.0.4.  (Note:  the
server is still 1) slow 2) buggy 3) only running part time; so don't
be surprised if it's not all there.)  Please send comments,
suggestions for changes, etc. to me, either there or to kevin@harvard.

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Kevin Crowston				UUCP: {seismo,ut-sally}!harvard!kevin
MIT Sloan School of Management		ARPA: kevin@harvard.ARPA