Re: Trivial SMTP client

["Peter Curran" <pcurran@ticl.co.uk>]

Robert


> What about just writing the information to a text file, then doing
> something like cat'ing that file to telnet hostname port25?
>
> I assume you have cat and telnet in your distro?
>

I would be pretty gob-smacked if this worked !!

Regrettably, the 'everything works like a file' model of *NIX does not work
in a network environment.  Telneting to port 25 just gives me a TCP pipe
between self and the server.  However, the server is kind of expecting me to
follow the SMTP protocol when transferring my mail - just sending it a
stream of data will not do.  RFC821 refers.

Peter