[Ma-linux] Re: SSH, telnet, and SMTP

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
>How do _you_ "get the mail.server.net's attention"?  is there some
>other command, besides telnet, that will enable you to continue
>with the 'ehlo' command?  "Curious minds want to know".

nc localhost 25 

There's a million ways to do it; there's nothing special about the 
telnet command in this context, it's just opening a socket.

Mike Stone