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

[Alan McConnell]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:04:23PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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 
	I googled, and nc evidently means "netcat"(tcp/ip Swiss army knife)
	I had no idea this existed, but I was able to install netcat
	from one of my Sarge CDs, and it does work as advertised.

> 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.
	Well, I have learned something.  Thanks, Mike.

Alan

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