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How do I sent test spam to myself remotely?

Grab the spam, including all headers, and paste it into a telnet session as described on the mail forge page.

  • % telnet mail.domain.com smtp
  • Trying 64.224.19.12...
  • Connected to mail.zone.com.
  • Escape character is '^ ]'.
  • 220 mail.zone.net ESMTP
  • ehlo
  • 250-mail.zone.net
  • 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
  • 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
  • 250-PIPELINING
  • 250-STARTTLS
  • 250 8BITMIME
  • mail from:
  • 250 ok
  • rcpt to:
  • 250 ok
  • data
  • 354 go ahead
  • PASTE SPAM HERE
  • .
  • 250 ok 1016471746 qp 9246

A spiffy new feature in Mail::Toaster 4.0 is toaster_setup.pl -s filtertest. It will send 4 messages to the email admin using each enabled content scanner.

Last modified on 4/5/05.