Re: quickie mail question

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:16:50AM +0900, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> It's late... I can't remember the command to test a particular
> secondary mail server while the primary is up.

You could configure your MTA to route to a specific host for
that domain.

But more simply, you can always telnet to it and try to inject
some mail destined for the domain for which it claims to be
secondary:

$ telnet fire.onjapan.net smtp
Trying 210.154.17.248...
Connected to fire.onjapan.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 fire.onjapan.net ESMTP Exim 3.16 #1 Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:58:43 +0900
helo igloo.dskk.co.jp
250 fire.onjapan.net Hello igloo.dskk.co.jp
mail from: jwt-tlug@example.com
250 <jwt-tlug@example.com> is syntactically correct
rcpt to: jwt-tlug@example.com
250 <jwt-tlug@example.com> is syntactically correct
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
hi
.
250 OK id=148YXS-0001mA-00
quit
221 fire.onjapan.net closing connection

If the server has not been correctly configured, you will most
likely get a complaint that it will not relay for the specified
domain.

-- 
Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586