I thought this would be easy and could be handled by just some 'system' stmts. for the scripting (i.e. system("telnet mail.abc.com 25") ) - make the connection and then then use more print `` or system stmts (HELO, Mail From etc.. - after the 220/250 responses) - I am on a Windows box, not Unix - The Telnet connect does fine - and after that it will only accept STDIN,(I was an SMTP Postmaster for years so I have the Connect/Send/Receive seq. down pat - LOL - ) I am just taking some data from a .htm form-> pl or cgi and then Email a portion (From/Recpt/Datestamp/Subject) and then also take all of the Form Data and push to a Shared File for later review. MailServer is Fixed at this point, may do a NSLOOKUP for mx and then save that as a Var, or @ARRAY and peel what is needed from there,etc.. DO I have to use NET::SMTP, or IO::Socket::INET - is the same true with any TELNET Session (i.e. FTP ) using NET::FTP ? Thanks to All !

In reply to telnet smtp- by bjs

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