Cannot execute telnet commands using PHP shell_exec ()

Question

I am trying to check mail using telnet and php. The whole words of the process are fine in the terminal, but when I use php shell_exec(), it starts only before the Telnet connection command. After connecting telnet, the remaining telnet commands no longer work.

Is there any other way that we need to execute telnet using php?

The UPDATE . I am trying to replicate this tutorial.

Here is my code

public function mailtest(Request $request){
        //Taking input email
        $email = $request->input("email");
        $divide = explode("@", $email);
        //Find out the Domain
        $server = $divide[1];
        $response = shell_exec("nslookup -q=mx $server");
        //Response of the nslookup
        print_r($response);
        $mailServerList = explode(PHP_EOL, $response);
        $line = $mailServerList[4];

        $serverArr = preg_split('/\s+/', $line);
        $n = sizeof($serverArr);
        $mailServer = $serverArr[$n-1];
        //Printing out the mail server out of the nslookup response
        print_r($mailServer);
        //Executing Telnet command
        $telnet = shell_exec("telnet $mailServer 25");
        print_r("telnet response ".$telnet);

        //Telnet Helo
        $helo = shell_exec("Helo testing.com");
        print_r("Helo response ".$helo);
        //Telnet mail from 
        $from = shell_exec('mail from: [e-mail]');
        print_r("MAil from response ".$from);
        //Telnet RCPT to
        $finalResponse = shell_exec("rcpt to: $email");
        print_r("Mail to response ".$finalResponse);
    }

And here is the answer

Server:     10.0.80.11
Address:    10.0.80.11#53

Non-authoritative answer:
gmail.com   mail exchanger = 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com   mail exchanger = 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com   mail exchanger = 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com   mail exchanger = 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com   mail exchanger = 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com  internet address = 173.194.64.27
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com  has AAAA address 2607:f8b0:4003:c02::1a
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 173.194.219.27
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has AAAA address 2607:f8b0:4002:c03::1b
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 64.233.190.26
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has AAAA address 2800:3f0:4003:c01::1b
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 74.125.141.26
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has AAAA address 2607:f8b0:400c:c06::1a
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 173.194.205.27
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has AAAA address 2607:f8b0:400d:c02::1b

gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.telnet response Trying 2607:f8b0:4003:c02::1a...
Connected to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Helo response 
MAil from response No message, no subject; hope that ok
Mail to response 

Answer 1

@Lavi, . fputs fwrite

$connect = @fsockopen($mailServer, 25);
if($connect){
    fputs ($connect , "HELO $mailServer\r\n");
    $out = fgets ($connect, 1024);
    $details .= $out."\n";

    fputs ($connect , "MAIL FROM: <$fromemail>\r\n");
    //$from = fgets ($connect, 1024);
    fputs ($connect , "RCPT TO: <$toemail>\r\n");
    //$to = fgets ($connect, 1024);
    fputs ($connect , "QUIT");
    fclose($connect);
}

Answer 2

shell_exec (. ).

fsockopen .

$fp = @fsockopen('yourMailServer.com', 9001);      

if ($fp) { 
    fwrite($fp, "username\n");
    fwrite($fp, "password\n");

    while ($line = fread($fp, 2048)) {    
       // do things with $line    
    }    
} else {    
    //return error    
}

Answer 3

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