Problems with Telnet

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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum or not and if I'm
not
will someone please guide me in the right direction.

We have a strange issue going on here. At my desk and at a client's
desk when we go to a command prompt and type telnet smtp.domain.com
110 (or even 25) the banner will appear. Whenever I try to input any
commands it doesn't matter what I type after I type one letter an
automatic carriage return is input after the letter. This same thing
happens on the mail server as well. I'm running Windows XP and so is
the client. We have Windows 2003 on the server. Our mail server is
a
POP3 mail server with multiple domains. It does not matter which
domain we try to telnet to we receive the same response.


Now, here is where it gets stranger. Two people currently in this
office run Windows Vista and can go to a command prompt and type in
the telnet commands without any problems.


Any ideas? I even installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my computer
for giggles to see if that would work and it did not. Any ideas or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks!
 
Re: Problems with Telnet

Try a utility called "Putty"

"NexLAN" <lisa@nexlan.com> wrote in message
news:cbee4f94-5114-4817-b717-dd6c2ecbe4bb@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum or not and if I'm
> not
> will someone please guide me in the right direction.
>
> We have a strange issue going on here. At my desk and at a client's
> desk when we go to a command prompt and type telnet smtp.domain.com
> 110 (or even 25) the banner will appear. Whenever I try to input any
> commands it doesn't matter what I type after I type one letter an
> automatic carriage return is input after the letter. This same thing
> happens on the mail server as well. I'm running Windows XP and so is
> the client. We have Windows 2003 on the server. Our mail server is
> a
> POP3 mail server with multiple domains. It does not matter which
> domain we try to telnet to we receive the same response.
>
>
> Now, here is where it gets stranger. Two people currently in this
> office run Windows Vista and can go to a command prompt and type in
> the telnet commands without any problems.
>
>
> Any ideas? I even installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my computer
> for giggles to see if that would work and it did not. Any ideas or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
 
Re: Problems with Telnet

On May 20, 9:07 am, "Jon Knight" <jonkni...@saber.eclipse.co.uk>
wrote:
> Try a utility called "Putty"
>
> "NexLAN" <l...@nexlan.com> wrote in message
>
> news:cbee4f94-5114-4817-b717-dd6c2ecbe4bb@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum or not and if I'm
> > not
> > will someone please guide me in the right direction.
>
> > We have a strange issue going on here.  At my desk and at a client's
> > desk when we go to a command prompt and type telnet smtp.domain.com
> > 110 (or even 25) the banner will appear.  Whenever I try to input any
> > commands it doesn't matter what I type after I type one letter an
> > automatic carriage return is input after the letter.  This same thing
> > happens on the mail server as well.  I'm running Windows XP and so is
> > the client.  We have Windows 2003 on the server.  Our mail server is
> > a
> > POP3 mail server with multiple domains.  It does not matter which
> > domain we try to telnet to we receive the same response.
>
> > Now, here is where it gets stranger.  Two people currently in this
> > office run Windows Vista and can go to a command prompt and type in
> > the telnet commands without any problems.
>
> > Any ideas?  I even installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my computer
> > for giggles to see if that would work and it did not.  Any ideas or
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I need to telnet to see the exact error message and why the e-mail
won't be setup. That is why I've been using telnet in the past and it
always worked up until a few days ago.
 
Re: Problems with Telnet

yes putty is a telnet client

"NexLAN" <lisa@nexlan.com> wrote in message
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On May 20, 9:07 am, "Jon Knight" <jonkni...@saber.eclipse.co.uk>
wrote:
> Try a utility called "Putty"
>
> "NexLAN" <l...@nexlan.com> wrote in message
>
> news:cbee4f94-5114-4817-b717-dd6c2ecbe4bb@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum or not and if I'm
> > not
> > will someone please guide me in the right direction.
>
> > We have a strange issue going on here. At my desk and at a client's
> > desk when we go to a command prompt and type telnet smtp.domain.com
> > 110 (or even 25) the banner will appear. Whenever I try to input any
> > commands it doesn't matter what I type after I type one letter an
> > automatic carriage return is input after the letter. This same thing
> > happens on the mail server as well. I'm running Windows XP and so is
> > the client. We have Windows 2003 on the server. Our mail server is
> > a
> > POP3 mail server with multiple domains. It does not matter which
> > domain we try to telnet to we receive the same response.
>
> > Now, here is where it gets stranger. Two people currently in this
> > office run Windows Vista and can go to a command prompt and type in
> > the telnet commands without any problems.
>
> > Any ideas? I even installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my computer
> > for giggles to see if that would work and it did not. Any ideas or
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I need to telnet to see the exact error message and why the e-mail
won't be setup. That is why I've been using telnet in the past and it
always worked up until a few days ago.
 
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