[SATLUG] using telnet to send emails

[Kent Paul Dolan]

> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:18:13 +0800
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dee=FEan_Chakravarthy?= <codeshepherd at gmail.com>

[even if your name is full of diacritical marks or
non-Latin alphabetics, you want to use a 7 bit pure
ASCII spelling of your name in your email header and
your account user ID, or you end up with a mess like
the above as seen by recipients, which is very
likely to get your email discarded unread as spam;
email is still very 7 bit ASCII hobbled, because so
are most of the recipient mail clients and much of
the transport software; this is very much a "let the
wookie win" situation, a battle you can't win and so
should avoid joining in the first place by doing
what the tools expect]

> Chris Lemire wrote:

>> How can I send an email using telnet and my mail
>> server including my name. For example.

> What are you trying exactly? Why not configure
> pine or mutt?

Chris is trying to figure out how to type email
directly to an SMTP port via Telnet, _without_ using
an email client. It's a worthwhile geek thing to
know how to do. Unfortunately, it's also a spammers'
toolkit weapon of choice.

xanthian.