[cse491] The email you created for us

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Sun Sep 27 15:19:45 PDT 2009


Great!

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 05:53:31PM -0400, Phil Deschaine wrote:
> Never mind, I got it working by putting the same email for RCPT TO and MAIL
> FROM.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Phil Deschaine <deschai5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the homework it says:
> >
> > "I've created addresses for each of you: nermal at cse491.msu.idyll.org, when
> > sent through the mail server teckla.idyll.org, will send the message on to
> > nermal at msu.edu."
> >
> > So, if I send a mail (using my spambot script) to
> > deschai5 at cse491.msu.idyll.org, it gets forwarded to deschai5 at msu.edu?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I'm able to do all the socket stuff, send the
> > message, and get a response such as "250 OK id=1MrgJ5-0004yT-Vd" but
> > nothing will show up in my email.  So, either I'm confused about where I
> > should be sending it, or a spam blocker is getting it.  I'm checking the
> > spam category of my gmail (where all my @msu.edu message are forwarded)
> > and there's nothing there, but I *think* there is an internal msu spam
> > blocker I don't have access to.
> >
> > Also, I'm assuming that I put the destination email into the sendall("RCPT
> > TO: call.  Does what I put into the HELO or MAIL FROM matter at all for
> > our purposes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
> >

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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu



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