Client

With a client you can connect to a server and exchange messages.

Type the name of the server in the server textbox and give the portnumber you wish to connect to. Press enter or click on Connect to make a connection.

All messages sent and received are logged in the window Received. By using special colors you can see what type of text is showed in the log window. Text received from a server (inbound) is shown in black, text sent to a server (outbound) is shown in green. Status messages received from the socket (like connecting info) can be seen in blue text. When there is an error it will show up red. To see a legend press F9 or select from the menu Sockets the item Legend.

To send text to a server you type the message in the combobox next to the Send button. Press enter (or click on the Send button) to transmit the message to the server. The text will appear in the log window. By using the combobox you can select earlier sent messages and transmit these again.

If you want to transmit a large amount of data at once, you can enter it in (or copy it to) the clipboard and send it using the paste button. The commands sent will show up in de Send history.

With the Disconnect button you can disconnect the client.

There are some special commands you can use if you click with the right mousebutton on the client window. There will be a popupmenu like shown below.

By selecting Clear history you can remove the previous given send items, servers and ports. With Send CRLF you can indicate if you want to send text with carriage return linefeed (character 10 and character 13). Usually you will need this and it is selected by default.

If you click on the log window with the right mousebutton a different popupmenu will be shown.

Here you can clear the log (Clear log), save the log, print the log contents (Print log), copy a selected part of the log contents (Copy) or select all the text and copy it to the clipboard (Select & Copy)

These commands can also be accessed by using the menuitem client in the menubar.

When you select Save log, you will get a dialog asking for a filename and the type of the file. By using RTF (RichTextFormat) you can also save the colors used in the log. By saving the file as TXT (Text) you will lose this layout. RTF files can be opened in most word processors.

For examples, click on a topic below:

port 25, SMTP Send an email
port 110, POP3 Check for email