Avaya IPO FAQ for Voicemail to Email - Testing SMTP mail server authentication 2

[PANAVAYA]

I've be asked to create a news thread to share the FAQ I have just published...

Here: faq940-7890

I hope others find this useful when troubleshooting vm to email issues.

 

[IPGuru]

Although relatively easy to find instructions on testing SMTP via telnet placing it here as an FAQ is probably long overdue

* given


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[ltxn]

Sometimes you need to test this from the application server or the C110 directly, e.g. when the SMTP server only accepts mails from that ip address or when a firewall is in play.
Unfortunately Telnet isn't installed by default.
Though, you can install it manually.

First we need to find the [highlight #FCE94F]Linux version[/highlight] and [highlight #729FCF]architecture[/highlight].

[root@uc-module ~]# uname -r -v -p
3.11.4-1.appscard.[highlight #FCE94F]el6[/highlight].[highlight #729FCF]i686[/highlight] #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 4 17:38:10 EET 2015 i686

Go to RPM resource telnet to find the correct [highlight #FCAF3E]link[/highlight].

[root@uc-module ~]# cd /tmp
[root@uc-module tmp]# wget [highlight #FCAF3E]ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.7/os/i386/Packages/telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm[/highlight]
--2016-05-02 17:14:41--  ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.7/os/i386/Packages/telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm
           => "telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm"
Resolving rpmfind.net... 195.220.108.108
Connecting to rpmfind.net|195.220.108.108|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /linux/centos/6.7/os/i386/Packages ... done.
==> SIZE telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm ... 58120
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm ... done.
Length: 58120 (57K) (unauthoritative)

100%[======================================>] 58,120      --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2016-05-02 17:14:42 (501 KB/s) - "telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm" saved [58120] 
[root@uc-module tmp]#  rpm -Uvh telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm
warning: telnet-0.17-48.el6.i686.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:telnet                 ########################################### [100%]

 

[IPGuru]

That may result in problems (it shouldn't)
& Avaya would use it as an excuse to reject support

you could also look into SSH local & remote port forwarding which should enable you to telnet from your own pc THROUGH the server concerned to get around the ip address restriction, I have not had time to test this yet.

it is amazing what features he SSH protocl offers when you look into it, not just a simple remote shell.


Do things on the cheap & it will cost you dear