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[AdvMutant]

Hey. It might sound simple, as long as you're not me. I'm trying to send an email using cmd. I'm running windows xp, but it has to work on windows 7 too. I wanna use my gmail account.
I found some VBS and EXE files that were supposed to work, but they're unable to connect to gmail's smtp.gmail.com server. Any way to fix it?

[DEViANT]

I dunno about CMD, in linux terminal its as simple as

>telnet smtp.gmail.com 25

followed by your HELO command, from and rcpt to, data, etc.

I remember CMD has a telnet client though. Try it out

[AdvMutant]

I tried it, but it won't let me for some reason. All I get is a blank CMD screen. Linux is a very interesting OS, I'm really starting to like it.

[WingedPanther]

I suspect Gmail is used a secure connection only, which may use a different port, or may be expecting additional information.

[nicckk]

Google's outgoing mail server is SSL enabled, and is on port 465.

[AdvMutant]

Oh... So is there a way I can telnet a SSL server?

[Alexander]

AdvMutant said:

Oh... So is there a way I can telnet a SSL server?

Well you are not going to get far with that, it required TLS (:587 not SSL :465). Telnet in command prompt does not display characters (it will be blank), so I would recommend downloading a simple and more advanced telnet client, such as PuTTytel. Server: smtp.gmail.com, port: 587.

You will see HELO/OLEH and HELP/MAIL commands will work fine, for a list of appropriate commands, check out the RFC specification, I am too rusty to give you a tutorial:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

[AdvMutant]

Thanks, I'll try that at home later.