Re: Telnet

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:40:51 -0500

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:34:18 GMT, Colyn
  <virusfree@thiscomnet.com> wrote:
> It was on this day Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:39:26 GMT, "Nils Petter
> Vaskinn" <no@spam.for.me.invalid> pecked out these words:
>
>
>
>>>> In Suse Linux v9.0 how do you telnet an application to administer it?
>>
>>How on earth will anyone know unless you tell which application you're
>>talking about? Provide all the infermation you think anyone _might_ ask
>>for to help you.
>>
> I'm trying to telnet into my email server (telnet myemailserver myip
> port) so I can set it up but whenever I telnet, I get the below.
>
You give either a host name or an ip address, not both. If the mail
server is on your own box, you can "telnet localhost 25" or "telnet
localhost 110", or you can even use the names "smtp" or "pop3" (any
name listed in /etc/services) for the port. 

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