[plug] Simplest POP dial-in sequence ?

[Bernard Blackham]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike wrote:
> Any links you know of to cover familiarity/background for the first
> part above re Unix/SMtp, telent etc ?

The RFC on the SMTP protocol would be a good start... from my index it's
RFC 821 for the basic standard. 

   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc821.html

Before you get to the SMTP stage though, a simple script should do to
dialin and get into shell mode -
eg:
  modem dialing ATDT.... here
  wait for login prompt - send username
  wait for password prompt - send password
  wait for mode selection (?) - select shell
  wait for bash prompt - send "telnet mailserver 25"
  do smtp stuff....

Good luck,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
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