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.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Me too.
Thanks a lot for your advise.

Anonymous said...

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

Anyways Thanks!

-JL Griffin