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socket expert help port 25 question #176347 08/05/07 05:15 PM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	smtp ports are port 25, i want to have some way where i can have my own emails like pouncer@myip / pouncer@mydns.whatever and so that people can send emails to me too on it if i open a socket on port 25 would this do the job? and when people send me emails, i should accept the socket? i need your help guys.

Re: socket expert help port 25 question pouncer #176364 08/05/07 08:55 PM
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hixxy Hoopy frood H Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,881	No. I'm not sure how the SMTP/POP protocols work any more, but I'm 99% sure there will be more to it than that, otherwise anyone could just listen on port 25 to retrieve your emails. Might be worth googling them to find out.

Re: socket expert help port 25 question hixxy #176365 08/05/07 09:14 PM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	if i open a socket on my mirc to listen on port 25, how can other people get my emails? my mirc will accept the incoming connections (emails sent my smtp server) from whoever connects to me on port 25

Re: socket expert help port 25 question pouncer #176369 08/05/07 11:04 PM
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Riamus2 Hoopy frood Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA	First, you'd have to be absolutely certain that your computer is up 24/7 or else you're likely to miss e-mails. And because your computer wouldn't have a "backup" that could bounce the e-mail back with an error message, no one would know that you didn't get it. Second, you'd have to run an actual mail server program or else make one in mIRC. Just listening won't be enough. Invision Support #Invision on irc.irchighway.net

Re: socket expert help port 25 question Riamus2 #176401 09/05/07 01:27 PM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	Code: alias em socklisten serv 25 on 1:socklisten:serv:{ var %sock = _test. $+ $r(111, 999) sockaccept %sock echo -a sockaccepted from $sock(%sock).ip } on 1:SOCKREAD:_test.*:{ var %s sockread %s tokenize 32 %s echo -a %s } Now when i send myself an email by php mail function like: Code: <?php if (mail("pouncer@mydns.whatever", "subject", "message")) echo "Mail sent"; ?> It actually echos, sockaccpeted etc.. but it doesnt echo anything from the sockread, im trying to make it echo the subject and message somehow, Last edited by pouncer; 09/05/07 01:27 PM.

Re: socket expert help port 25 question pouncer #176404 09/05/07 01:55 PM
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genius_at_work Hoopy frood G Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,741	As was mentioned earlier, you can't just open a socket and expect the email to just pour out onto your screen. There is a handshake procedure that takes place between then server and the client. Look up the SMTP RAW protocol for the messages that need to be sent back and forth. -genius_at_work

Re: socket expert help port 25 question genius_at_work #176405 09/05/07 02:15 PM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	Thanks for the reply genius, i've tried googling for information about it, but i just keep finding stuff on 'sending emails' my aim is to recevie the email, any ideas guys?

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