Re: [PLUG] spoofing off subject

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

Yeah tried it but my telnet program doesn't even hit the site given in
your corrected messege.  I believe you typed that the telnet site for
hotmail was mx1.hotmail.com 25.  With or with out the 25 I failed to make
contact.
bs


On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:27:39AM -0400, Bob Schwier wrote:
> > How do you telnet into a hotmail account?  I have a friend who wants to
> > leave Bill Gates behind but does not want to go through the hassle of
> > chaning her e-mail address.
> 
> You can only send email using SMTP, you can't retrieve it (unless
> it's delivered to an SMTP daemon on your local machine). I was just
> talking about telneting to port 25, which just lets you make
> deliveries to an SMTP daemon.
> 
> Your friend wants to retrieve her email from Hotmail on another
> system using a POP3 or IMAP4 mail user agent. fetchmail is probably
> what she wants, provided that Hotmail allows you to retrieve mail
> using one of those protocols. I have no clue whether they do or not.
> Another option would be email forwarding, provided Hotmail offers
> that.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 

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