[muglo] Re: Problems connecting with Apple's Mail

Glad to hear that you got it working.

> From the command line you should try something like:
>=20
> telnet mail.porchlight.ca:25
>=20
> and this should connect to your mail server. Type some gibberish and
> you should get an error message back. This will confirm that you can
> indeed connect to the port.
>=20
> PS This telnet trick works for ALL ports and ALL servers. Telnet is
> the most basic of all internet protocols so it can interact with
> virtually anything that moves.

The telnet trick is actually this:
telnet mail.porchlight.ca 25

You could try:
telnet www.apple.com 80

This takes you to Apple's web server. If you know the commands needed
to request HTML pages you could communicate with the web server ;-).

Eric.
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