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Sending E-mail using Telnet

Back to 1998 when I was learning the SMTP protocol, that moment was very interesting for me to learn something new, one of fundamental protocol on the internet. You can read the details of the SMTP protocol here. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Created by Jonathan B Postel, the objective is simple, to transfer mail reliably and efficiently. The SMTP protocol still used today by many e-mail clients software. Continue reading ‘Sending E-mail using Telnet’ »

Connect to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Network using Telnet

In the past days, IRC is very popular chat network in the world. Many people using it to chat with friends over the world. Nowdays IRC is less popular than other services, such Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Gtalk, Facebook Chat etc, but IRC still used on some community such as developer community. For example, CakePHP community often available on irc.freenode.net #cakephp, CodeIgniter also available on the same server at #codeigniter.

Now we will try to do fun things. Yes, we will simulate connection to IRC server not using IRC client software but only using Telnet. Again, this is for personal fun things. I just do it for remembering the past when learning the IRC protocol. Continue reading ‘Connect to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Network using Telnet’ »