Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

[Mick]

On 18/06/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:

> Netcat or gnu-netcat (not much of a difference, as far as I know).
>
> With netcat, you can either do SMTP manually (like you intended) or
> you can use netcat in the way it might have been originally intended;
> ie. as a "cat to net".
>
> To do the former, you'd execute:
>
>         nc host smtp
>
> To do the latter, you'd do:
>
> echo "HELO localhost
> QUIT" | nc host smtp
>
> The latter isn't (easily) possible with telnet ("easy" excludes
> the use of "expect").

Cool!  Thanks for all your replies.

I'm off now emerging netcat, but I noticed that there's also cryptcat
which I assume is only useful if the remote server has twofish
encryption enabled?
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Regards,
Mick
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