Thanks Hal!

[Dre G.]

because mail servers respond to telnet via thier port. So do other 
services. Try it on other mail servers.
I wouldnt actually pass login information with it across an untrusted 
network but its great for a quick test to see if the mail server is 
responding. 

dre

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Brian Kelsay wrote:

> Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
> > bam:/home/gerald> telnet kclug.org 25
> > Trying 139.146.133.42...
> > Connected to kclug.org.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 kclug.org ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
> > quit
> > 221 Bye
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Umm, why is telnet running/responding on the server?
> 
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