Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
- author:: Nathan Acks
- date:: 2022-04-03
A set of commands to send an email:
HELO somehostname
MAIL FROM:fromaddress@host1.tld
RCPT TO:toaddress@host2.tld
DATA
To: "To Address" <toaddress@host2.tld>
From: "From Address" <fromaddress@host1.tld>
Subject: An Email
This is content.
Here is another line.
.
QUIT
Note that MAIL FROM
/ From
and RCPT TO
/ To
are not actually required to match, though failure to fill in the MAIL FROM
/ RCPT TO
commands may result in the message being rejected. The commands above are not case-sensitive, and the message ends with a .
on a single line.