[cse491] spambot help

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:15:33PM -0400, Andrew Thielking wrote:
> Even after changing both the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses to be the same
> thing, my spam bot seems to just 'hang' at the sock.recv(4096) after
> sock.sendall(MAIL FROM: nermal at cse491.msu.idyll.org)

Hi Andrew,

remember these sockets are (as by default) set to blocking, so that
tells you that the server is not sending a response.  Perhaps you're not
sending a complete command?

--titus