Re: Trivial SMTP client

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ben Goren wrote:

> > You  could also  use nc(1). As  long as  you generate  the right
> > text, it should work. Something like:
>
> It's a nice idea, but it  don't work. Try it and see. Neither does
> telnet--SMTP really does want to have a dialog, not just a pair of
> firehoses spewing at each other.

I did. It worked for me. But I'm on a quiet 100baseT switched net.
YMMV.
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