Ah, I thought you meant you were sending or receiving mail the hardcore way ;)
netcat and telnet are like the while and do loops of network tools. Very similar, but sometimes one or the other just feels more right.
Just like nethack, I can see other scenarios where telnet makes sense even if ssh could conceivably do the job. But I’ll definitely grant you that I type ‘ssh’ multiple times per day and ‘telnet’ maybe once a month.
]]>Yup, that’s what I meant when I mentioned telneting to port 110 or 25. But you could theoretically use netcat for that with about the same effect.
]]>Not exactly an everyday thing, but if you’re debugging a server (mailserver, http server, whatever) then telnet is your friend.
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