{"id":4529,"date":"2019-10-30T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=4529"},"modified":"2022-10-05T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:54:42","slug":"testing-pop3-and-smtp-server-mail-server-using-telnet","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/kb\/testing-pop3-and-smtp-server-mail-server-using-telnet","title":{"rendered":"Testing POP3 and SMTP Server Mail Server Using Telnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4529\" class=\"elementor elementor-4529\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4936852f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4936852f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4981b45a\" data-id=\"4981b45a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a430741 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a430741\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>You may perform the following test to confirm the SMTP server is online and responding:<\/b><\/p><p>1. Start &gt; Run &gt; cmd (WinNT\/XP\/2003) orStart &gt; Run &gt; command (Win95\/98)<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6455 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/blob1468765838958.png\" alt=\"smtp server command \" width=\"576\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p><p>2. Type command:telnet mail.domainname.com 25 (Example as below)<\/p><p><strong>You should receive some response as below:<\/strong><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6451 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/blob1468765900033.png\" alt=\"received some responds\" width=\"569\" height=\"93\" \/><\/p><p>The message confirmed that the SMTP server is working properly.<\/p><p>3. To quit the Telnet prompt, type &#8220;quit&#8221;.<\/p><p><b>To confirm the POP server is online and responding:<\/b><\/p><p>1.Start &gt; Run &gt; cmd (WinNT\/XP\/2003) orStart &gt; Run &gt; command (Win95\/98)<\/p><p>2.telnet mail.domainname.com 110 (Example as below)<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6454 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/blob1468765992496.png\" alt=\"confirm the pop server\" width=\"576\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p><p><b>You should receive some response as below:<\/b><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6456 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/blob1468766029968.png\" alt=\"received some response\" width=\"567\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p><p>The message confirmed that the POP server is working properly.<\/p><p>3. To quit the Telnet prompt, type &#8220;quit&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may perform the following test to confirm the SMTP server is online and responding: 1. Start &gt; Run &gt; cmd (WinNT\/XP\/2003) orStart &gt; Run &gt; command (Win95\/98) 2. Type command:telnet mail.domainname.com 25 (Example as below) You should receive some response as below: The message confirmed that the SMTP server is working properly. 3. To &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/kb\/testing-pop3-and-smtp-server-mail-server-using-telnet\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing POP3 and SMTP Server Mail Server Using Telnet<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"kbtopic":[85],"kbtag":[110],"mkb_version":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/4529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/4529\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"mkb_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mkb_version?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}