Re: Question about TELNET and Authentication

["Alfredo Delgado" <adelgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try something like this:

telnet mailserver 25
ehlo
auth login
BASE64 encoded username
BASE64 encoded password
mail from: foo@xxxxxxx
rcpt to: bar@xxxxxxx
data
foo
.

Base64 encoder: http://makcoder.sourceforge.net/demo/base64.php

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, <jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am using TELENT to manually send an email to a mail server
> using
> the commands HELO, MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO: etc. etc.
>
> However the mail server requires authentication and I cannot
> find
> the format for sending the user and password.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> John
>
>
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