Desktop clients send email over Gmail using the simple mail transfer protocol. You can use the telnet program on your computer to connect to Gmail's SMTP server and verify the connection is working ...

Out of curiosity, I am telnetting to an SMTP server. The Email is to me i.e. RCPT goes to me. The MAIL FROM: i've put my email address. But I don't get any name displayed. If I try in a program like ...

Hi there. <BR>I've been working on locking down some email server's lately and as such have spent alot of time in telnet sessions with them.<BR>One thing I've noticed is the responses certain server's ...

Poor telnet, it used to be the cool kid on the block. It was the program all sysadmins turned to when they needed to connect to a remote server. Telnet just wasn't that good at keeping a secret—all ...