Life with no mail client-here's my comments on how and why.

[Monty J. Harder]

On Jan 4, 2008 2:10 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> > you could just telnet to your POP3 and SMTP servers; that would be
> > using the telnet e-mail client
>
> I don't believe either POP3 or SMTP support the Telnet protocol.
> So using a Telnet client *might* work, but that is a coincidence from the
> simplicity of the protocols involved.


Any protocol that uses TCP and human-readable text "supports" the *telnet* *
client*.  That's the way most of the Internet got designed.  When you're
testing a server, you telnet to it and converse via the protocol you're
trying to implement.  Once you get the server running, you can implement a
client that talks to it.
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