in reply to Re^2: opening a telnet/smtp connection without waiting for response
in thread opening a telnet/smtp connection without waiting for response

bah, mundane details. Here I was digging deep for a problem on the surface. out SMTP fucntion explicitly waits for a return from the server, this is not in the Telnet object. So that was my problem. Oh well. Thanks guys!
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