Test recieving

[shiggyshag]

Hi

I wish to test that my exchange and firewall are all working by sending an email to them.

But i dont want to change my MX record until i know that they are working correctly.

Is there a good way to ensure they are working?

Cheers

 

[itecs]

you can test your out bound, however in order to receive email (unless you setup a test domain and add that in your exchange server) you'll need to change the MX records.

 

[MikeBatters]

You can spoof amil in to the outside of the firewall if it is set up to send on to the Exchange server.

To spoof mail:

telnet ip.ip.ip.ip 25
helo domainname.com
mail from:user@domainname.com
rcpt to:recipient@yourdomain.com
DATA
Test Mail
This is just a test.
.
quit

That should work for inbound. If you have got something like MIMESweeper in the middle i might detect this as a spoofed mail and stop it.

Hope that helps.