Sending mail using smtp commands via telnet

Jason Munro jason at stdbev.com
Mon Aug 1 13:18:18 CDT 2005


On 12:59:52 pm 08/01/05 "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO"
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> And why are you using telnet instead of ssh?

Umm.. because of you want to connect to the standard SMTP port (25) and
test delivering mail to your mail server you need to use clear text
transmission like SMTP does?


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