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I was trying to send an email through command line by telnetting to port 25 and 465 of the servers of different companies but was unable to do that. For Google it dint even logged me in. In MSN when you carry on the procedure u have to enter a Base-64 encoded username and password but even after entering that it was not logging me in. Can anyone tell whats the probllem seems to be?

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Can you provide how you are logging in ? As u need to write the proper statements. (headers) – Lucas Kauffman Jan 25 '12 at 7:00
This would be on topic at superuser, but they already have this: superuser.com/questions/356222/… – Rory Alsop♦ Jan 25 '12 at 9:07
@Lucas : using the basic set of instructions : 1. HELO 2.Auth 3. Mail From 4. RCPT To 5. DATA 6. Quit but I think its failing at 2nd instruction... – Pankaj Anand Jan 26 '12 at 5:10
@RoryAlsop : will keep this in mind. thanks.. – Pankaj Anand Jan 26 '12 at 5:10

closed as off topic by SteveS, Rory Alsop♦ Jan 25 '12 at 8:16

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