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| natural_4u 2004-02-16, 5:24 am |
| how do you use the telnet command to find your e-mail host or server?
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| Will Dormann 2004-02-16, 10:24 am |
| natural_4u wrote:
> how do you use the telnet command to find your e-mail host or server?
You can't use telnet to *find* your email host. If you *know* your
email host name, then you can do:
telnet <emailhost> 110
to connect to the POP3 port if you like.
-WD
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| John D Loop 2004-02-16, 9:24 pm |
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"Will Dormann" <wdormann@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:hk4Yb.8025$9H3.1263@fe2.columbus.rr.com...
> natural_4u wrote:
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> You can't use telnet to *find* your email host. If you *know* your
> email host name, then you can do:
> telnet <emailhost> 110
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> to connect to the POP3 port if you like.
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> -WD
You can also telnet to the SMTP port 25 to send mail...
telnet emailhost 25
J
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