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Test SMTP Mail Server With Telnet
Testing SMTP with telnet can come in handy. You may have just set up your mailserver and want to test it, or your email client is having problems sending emails and is not giving very helpful error messages (if any). Using telnet is handy as it will throw up any error messages which will help you do understand at what part of the sending process the failure has occured.
Testing with Telnet is real quick and simple,we are going to assume plain password authentication and no TLS or SSL. Read the rest of this entry »