Re: [courier-users] Is there a text-only IMAP/SMTP client I can use

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Peter Ford wrote:
| I'm trying to test external access to my server, and the only machine
| that fits the requirements has no X or graphics (it's a linux server)
| so I need to find a program that does something like what Thunderbird
| does with a remote server, only without a point and drool interface. I'm
| thinking something like Pine, but I don't want to install random
| programs until I have some idea of whether they would work...
| Particularly, it needs to be able to do SMTP AUTH LOGIN on my mail
| server to get around relaying restrictions.

You can also use telnet and 'openssl s_client' and do it by hand. It
will require you to learn the actual commands for the protocols (smtp,
pop3, imap, etc.) but those are *incredibly* useful skills to have. And
they work from anywhere, any machine, any OS (at least telnet does).

A week ago I was walking into my church for the service when the
secretary flagged me down saying that they had major email problems.
(Computers not working on Resurrection Sunday seems somehow WRONG to me;
but I digress!) :-) I was able to sit down at her Windows 2000 machine,
telnet into the ISP's pop3 and smtp services, issue a few commands and
see what the problem was. If you want to troubleshoot email then
knowing how to interact with the services in a telnet session is
invaluable, I find.

HTH.

Jeff Jansen
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