Re: [SATLUG] using telnet to send emails

Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:18:13 +0800
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dee=FEan_Chakravarthy?= <codeshepherd@xxxxxxxxx>

[even if your name is full of diacritical marks or
non-Latin alphabetics, you want to use a 7 bit pure
ASCII spelling of your name in your email header and
your account user ID, or you end up with a mess like
the above as seen by recipients, which is very
likely to get your email discarded unread as spam;
email is still very 7 bit ASCII hobbled, because so
are most of the recipient mail clients and much of
the transport software; this is very much a "let the
wookie win" situation, a battle you can't win and so
should avoid joining in the first place by doing
what the tools expect]

Chris Lemire wrote:

How can I send an email using telnet and my mail
server including my name. For example.

What are you trying exactly? Why not configure
pine or mutt?

Chris is trying to figure out how to type email
directly to an SMTP port via Telnet, _without_ using
an email client. It's a worthwhile geek thing to
know how to do. Unfortunately, it's also a spammers'
toolkit weapon of choice.

xanthian.


--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users