mprobe(8)

mprobe8

Smtp-server aliveness probe

Usage

mprobe hostname

Overview

mprobe is usable to test, if the named host (no IP address usable!) has a smtp-server that responds properly.

Exit status

0

All is well, smtp-server responded just fine

2

Can't resolve target hostname

3

mprobe internal failure, can't create socket (should not happen!)

4

failed to connect to the remote host

5

mprobe internal failure, fdopen() failed.. (should not happen!)

17, 19

The remote smtp-server hung-up on us, most likely

18

The remote smtp-server did respond something, but it did not begin with "220"

20

Timeout (60 seconds) from start of processing.

99

Missing mandatory host parameter.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

  1. 2.2–3.0

Author

This tool is authored and copyright by: Matti Aarnio <[email protected]>

From zmailer 2.99.55-3 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.