"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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so

#telnet www.drabcdfirstaid.com.au 25
Trying 64.251.30.196...
Connected to drabcdfirstaid.com.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 spxxxx.int.infolink.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)

tells me its a ubuntu machine running postfix mail. Now I know that if I
carry on with this telnet into the SMTP port, its very likely that
root@localhost will be accepted as a direct recipient into the root users
mailbox.

So I sent one. And it was.
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This tells me that you aren't in the habit of typing in SMTP at the
keyboard, or you could have confirmed the acceptance of the 'root@localhost'
address whilst connected to the server via Telnet.
Then again, I'd have to refresh my memory of the RFCs before attempting it
now :-)

Ah - rereading it may well be that you did as I suggested instead of sending
a seperate email.

For those wondering if it was a mail address, a web server, whatever, a
standard server install of Ubuntu can give you the whole nine yards in one
go.
Posibly the person who set up the system was focussed on installing the web
server and hadn't realised he/she/it had also set up a working mail server
by default.
Then again all the incoming mail may be redirected to '/dev/null'.

Cheers

Dave R

--
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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