[wplug] telnet for email

Lance Tost ltost at pobox.com
Tue Jun 17 13:35:36 EDT 2003


Or configure something like Squirrelmail via https...

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, John Harrold wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:01:47 -0400
> From: John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] telnet for email
> 
> Sometime in June Mike Griffin assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Every computer that has tcp/ip installed has a telnet client. This 
> | doesn't hold true with secure shell clients.
> | If you're at a library, for instance, you can't dl something onto the 
> | computer but telnet is available for use.
> | 
> | Mike
> 
> well you can setup a webserver with ssl and get one of those java ssh
> clients to run in a browser... i did this a while back and it worked pretty
> well. really though, of the libraries i've been in, the computers were
> either locked down so tightly that access was forbidden to telnet or so
> poorly that i could download putty. 
> 
> plus it's simply not true that "Every computer that has tcp/ip installed
> has a telnet client." while you might be saying that a telnet client exists,
> that doesn't necessarly mean it's installed. while it might be true to say
> that "many" computers fitting that condition have a telent client
> installed, i've certainly found some that do not.
> 
> 

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>




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