Subj : Looking for a little advice...
To   : Spaceboy
From : Accession
Date : Fri Jul 12 2024 20:07:24

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:11:06 +0000, you wrote:

 S> I am challenged right now with my only access being stuck behind a
 S> shitty filter and I was hoping I could get a little help. Now, I am a
 S> retro geek and love a challenge, but this sucks.

What are you challenged with, and what filter are you stuck behind?

 S> Think of it like a desert island scenario, if you will. Say you only
 S> had ftp and telnet, as if you got time warped back to the nineties
 S> (but you have Windows10 - meh) and had to start from scratch. What
 S> tools do you use?

For FTP, as I don't use it much, I just use the Linux console (ftp) client, and on my Windows machine, I use WinSCP. If I had the need to use it more often, I'd probably go with something like Filezilla.

For telnet, I use Syncterm or the Linux console (telnet), really. But there's others out there, like IcyTerm, Magiterm, Netrunner, and probably a few others I don't remember.

 S> Currently I found a win32 telnet program called mTelnet, but it
 S> doesn't support TLS encryption, so I can't even talk to
 S> smtp/imap.gmail.com. What would you do? What software is essential?
 S> How do you get basic email services?

mTelnet is quite old and outdated. Still works great for telnet, but that's about, if not all it supports (as the name implies).

I guess my question in this case is, why are you trying to use a telnet program for email services? Unless I'm misunderstanding something here.

Regards,
Nick

.... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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