Thread: Smtp greeting not received only from gmail
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Old 8th February 2013, 00:44
fr0stsp1re fr0stsp1re is offline
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Not all SMTP servers will respond with a banner after you telnet into them. It is waiting for you to issue a command and the server is timing out waiting for it. At least that is what it seems like. Issue a HELO or EHLO command and see what happens.
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