mconnect(1) User Commands mconnect(1)NAME
mconnect - connect to SMTP mail server socket
SYNOPSIS
mconnect [-p port] [-r] [hostname]
DESCRIPTION
The mconnect utility opens a connection to the mail server on a given host, so that it can be tested independently of all other mail soft-
ware. If no host is given, the connection is made to the local host. Servers expect to speak the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on
this connection. Exit by typing the quit command. Typing EOF sends an end of file to the server. An interrupt closes the connection immedi-
ately and exits.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-p port Specify the port number instead of the default SMTP port (number 25) as the next argument.
-r "Raw" mode: disable the default line buffering and input handling. This produces an effect similar to telnet(1) to port
number 25.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
hostname The name of a given host.
USAGE
The mconnect command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.hf help file for SMTP commands
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO telnet(1), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), ip6(7P)
Postel, Jonathan B., RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, August
1982.
SunOS 5.10 9 Nov 1999 mconnect(1)
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Authen::Simple::SMTP(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::SMTP(3pm)NAME
Authen::Simple::SMTP - Simple SMTP authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::SMTP;
my $smtp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new(
host => 'smtp.company.com'
);
if ( $smtp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMTP
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMTP_host "smtp.company.com"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMTP
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION
Authenticate against a SMTP service.
METHODS
* new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
* host Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost".
host => 'ftp.company.com'
host => '10.0.0.1'
* port Connection port, default to 25.
port => 25
* timeout
Connection timeout, defaults to 60.
timeout => 60
* log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::SMTP')
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple.
Net::SMTP.
AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Authen::Simple::SMTP(3pm)
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