At 09:25 AM 10/14/2002 -0700, you wrote: >On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 09:12 US/Pacific, Jeffry Houser wrote: > > But got confused when someone said they use telnet to check there > > mail. ( What they must have meant was they use telnet to get into the > > server, and then use a server-side program to check there mail ). > >Nope, you can telnet to port 110 and as long as you speak POP3 you can >read mail with telnet. I do it quite often.
I didn't know that. Very interesting. I remember telnetting into my school's VAX machine many years ago. I remember a lot of discussion boards throughout the Internet, but the web has moved them all away from telnet. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DotComIt, Putting you on the web AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My CFMX Book: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072225564/instantcoldfu-20> My Books: http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My Band: http://www.farcryfly.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
