Send a mail through Telnet!!

[Shane P]

Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

Hello Sandra,

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

[Rock]

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!

[AndyF]

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 !!

[Alfie K]

Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

Thank you for detailed info about it.

Regards,
Alfie

[Sandra P]

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

[Alfie K]

Re: Send a mail through Telnet!!

Hi Sandra,

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

[Tech Hunter]

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

[Sandra P]

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.