On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:21, Alexander Henry wrote: > keith smith wrote: > > When you say open a connection are you talking telnet? > > Nope, SMTP. SMTP is a protocol which is just about as "open" as telnet, > though. PERL has CPAN modules which "just does it". > MIME::Entity->build() followed by Net::SMTP->new() then > $smtp->data($mime->stringify()) then $smtp->dataend(). You need to be a little careful when talking about TELNET to differentiate the protocol from the utility. You can indeed use the 'telnet' utility to open an SMTP connection to an MTA. I do that all the time for testing purposes. $ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 workstation.local ESMTP Postfix EHLO test.org 250-workstation.local 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME MAIL FROM: kurt 250 Ok RCPT TO: kurt 250 Ok DATA 354 End data with . Subject: Just a test From: Some User hi . --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss