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Article #115Re: Mail server question, utterly clueless but a few clues should see me on my way :)
From: Jim M
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:33:21 GMT, alisdair@nospam.demon.co.uk
(Alisdair Wren) wrote:
>{Jim$M}@brit-cit.demon.co.uk uttered thus:
>>
>>All this is through a TCP "Socket" connection, as opposed to simple
>>ASCII text down a serial connection ? Messed with serial comms, but
>>not ventured into sockets as of yet (but am having to do this soon).
>
>Well, you can do it over a serial connection, but you would generally
>use TCP encapsulated in some kind of internet and link protocol.
>
>For it to be any use at all, it must be compatible with a useful mail
>server, in which case you _do_ need to use TCP/IP for the connection.
>
>Alisdair
Cheers Chap,
Thought as much. Going to dig around the VC6 samples for a telnet
example. It seems that establishing a connection to everything on the
internet can be done by establishing a telnet session, pointed to a
particular port.
I suppose I've got be careful with experimenting, due to a recent
thread about portscanners in d.service. Make sure my variables don't
get corrupted and all that...
Jim M - pondering over writing a newsreader as well.
--
@ Derbyshire
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Subject: Re: Mail server question, utterly clueless but a few clues should see me on my way :)
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