<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 2:10 PM, Luke -Jr <<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> you could just telnet to your POP3 and SMTP servers; that would be<br>> using the telnet e-mail client<br><br></div>I don't believe either POP3 or SMTP support the Telnet protocol.<br>So using a Telnet client *might* work, but that is a coincidence from the
<br>simplicity of the protocols involved.</blockquote><div><br>Any protocol that uses TCP and human-readable text "supports" the <b><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">telnet</span></b> <i>client</i>
. That's the way most of the Internet got designed. When you're testing a server, you telnet to it and converse via the protocol you're trying to implement. Once you get the server running, you can implement a client that talks to it.
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