PGP problems

[Alexander Sarras]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:00:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:55:27PM +0200, Alexander Sarras wrote:
> > >     Heh, not likely.  I monitor my machine quite a bit.  Besides, I was
> > > telnetting out to someone's SMTP port. :P
>   
> > Naughty boy!
> 
>     Why?  That is how you flush a remote SMTP queue for your server.  You
> telnet into your secondary MX's SMTP port and issue an ETRN command.  What
> that script does is on a "game on" it shuts down my SMTP server.  All mail
> then hits my secondary MX.  Then on a "game off" it restarts the SMTP server
> and issues an ETRN to my secondary MX so his machine knows to send all pending
> messages to my machine.
>  
That's the "legal" way of telneting to an smtp-port. Me, I was thinking of,
well, other possibilities.
SaS
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