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		KingOfCoders on Sept 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) "At a loss, I telnetted into the SMTP port." Ah the days when the internet was innocent.

roygbiv2 on Sept 20, 2023 | [–]

You can still telnet into SMTP and send mail. Gets tricky if you need to do starttls though.

kapitanjakc on Sept 20, 2023 | [–]

I still telnet to ports, but they're not default anymore.

Quite handy telnet is

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