On 02/03/2012 04:52, Aragon, Gabriel (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote: > Hi, > first of all my apologies if you consider this highly offtopic, I have > already posted this in a couple of linux forums w/o luck, so I wanted to try > here since I know that some dba’s are also very good sysadmins. > > I need some help with a Linux issue, I’m sending an email on Solaris 10 using > telnet to port 25 inside a heredoc: Hi Gabriel, why don't you use the utilities your OS provides for this purpose (mail, mailx)? Are you sure that localhost provides SMTP services? What's the output of: telnet localhost 25 ehlo Regards Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l