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Article: 12450 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: John Santos <john.santos@post.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ? Script for retrieving from POP3 server
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In article <9e351k$maj$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu says...
> In article <MPG.156e9a569debacb498968f@news.bellatlantic.net>,
> John Santos <john.santos@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> : At my company, we used to use Kermit to connect to the SMTP server and
> : send mail, so talking to the POP3 server should be possible. I don't
> : have any special hints to offer except that it would probably be
> : necessary to turn off telnet option negotiations ("set telnet wait off"
> : in Kermit, IIRC), and to careful check for errors after each and every
> : command in your Kermit script and have it do something reasonable.
>
> When using C-Kermit to connect to a service that is not using telnet
> protocol, the connection should be made using a raw socket
>
> SET HOST host port /RAW-SOCKET
>
> /RAW-SOCKET is an example of a protocol. Another protocol that can
> be used with NVT based services is /NO-TELNET-INIT which means use
> Telnet protocol but do not initiate any telnet negotiations.
>
> SET TELNET WAIT OFF is something that should be used only when
> communicating with a broken Telnet Server when you do not want to
> spend the time to determine which of the telnet options it implements
> improperly. When SET TELNET WAIT OFF is used, telnet negotiations are
> initiated which may be treated as garbage by the service.
>
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 7.1 Alpha available
> The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Secure Telnet and FTP
> http://www.kermit-project.org/ using Kerberos, SRP, and
> kermit-support@kermit-project.org OpenSSL. SSH soon to follow.
Thanks for the hint. I'll check to see if we are still doing this, and
use this method if appropriate. (I take it that /NO-TELNET-INIT doesn't
initiate telnet negotiations, but does respond to them if the remote
side initiates them?)
--
John Santos