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Nov 082010
 

Emulate telnet using nc

Answer:

Telnet is a very useful tool for connecting to remote server, such as SMTP. However, you can replace the command telnet by nc, with the exact functionality.

Example: Connect to the local SMTP server.

# nc localhost 25

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