[P1] Mail question

[Tom R. no spam]

DO NOT use telnet unless you want your username and password
to be known to anyone who happens to be listening to the
traffic on any route your messages take to the ISP.  Use SSH
instead.  If your ISP can't work with SSH, ask them how they
recommend to make a secure connection with them.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Zoki wrote:
 . . .
> *** To find out if the problem is ycour connexion, your ISP... or just
> radiation affecting electronic equipment due to inter-gallactic activity...
> try the following:
>
> 1/
> open terminal
>
> 2/
> type
>
>     telent my.isp.com 110
>
> server will respond with +OK
>
> 3/
> type
>
>     USER your_user_name
>
> server will respond with +OK
>
> 4/ type
>
>     PASS your_password
 . . .