Friday, January 09, 2009

Telnet SMTP Escape Character

When connecting to an SMTP server via telnet (i.e. telnet mail.example.com 25), you will be informed that "Escape character is '^]'." This means you need to press CTRL-] (control plus right-bracket)

I am embarrassed how long it took me to realize that.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/19/2010 3:02 PM

    Thanks for the tip. I am also embarrassed at how long it took me to figure that out too!

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  2. Anonymous5/25/2010 9:03 AM

    Me too.
    Thanks a lot for your advise.

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  3. Anonymous7/13/2011 8:00 PM

    THANK YOU! I had tried everything (Well Clearly not Ctrl-]), i was ready to pull out my hair :P

    Anyways Thanks!

    -JL Griffin

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