Send a mail through Telnet!!

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    Send a mail through Telnet!!

    You can send the mail using Telnet as well. Please follow the below mentioned procedure:

    1. The first thing to do is to open a connection from your computer to your mail server.

    2. telnet mail.domain.ext 25

    3. You will then need to declare where you are sending the email from:

    4. HELO local.domain.name

    5. Now give your email address:

    6. MAIL FROM: [email protected]

    7. Now give the recipients address:

    8. RCPT TO: [email protected]

    9. To start composing the message issue the command DATA

    10.If you want a subject for your email type Subjectype subject here- then press enter twice

    11.You may now proceed to type the body of your message (e.g. hello [email protected] from [email protected])

    12.To tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single "." on a line on it's own.

    13. You can close the connection by issuing the QUIT command.

    #2
    Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

    Hi Sandra,

    Hope you are doing well!!!!!

    This is another way to send a mail through command prompt. Quite lengthy process but again good informative post for all.

    Thank you for sharing with us!!!!!!!!




    Tech Hunter

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      #3
      Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

      Hi Sandra,

      Is it possible to send an attachment using this method??

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        #4
        Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

        Hi Alfie,

        The Answer is Yes but very difficult & as said above it is very lengthy process.There is only one way to do so.Actually attachment normally moved with MIME conversion & it is hard to convert message into MIME type.It can be done easily by using Unix but difficult on Windows command prompt.You can refer this to do this.
        RFC 1426 - SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport .

        Please share your experience after doing this


        Regards,
        Sandra P

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          #5
          Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

          Thank you for detailed info about it.

          Regards,
          Alfie

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            #6
            Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

            Thanks for sharing your resource. Until now, I was just using it for configuring network devices haven't thought of sending an email using it not too sure how secure is it while sending an email !!

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              #7
              Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

              Sending email through telnet utility/technology was used in the ancient days.. hardly anyone uses it nowadays, but can be useful when in cases of non-availability of email clients
              Thanks for sharing this information!
              Rock _a.k.a._ Jack Daniel

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                #8
                Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

                Hello Sandra,

                Thanks for sharing this..really nice information....!!!

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