Can I connect to the yahoo mail servers to either check or send my mail using telnet? How? I am using win98. Thanks

Yes! connect to proper port number and it work.

To follow up to danny's reply. Yes but its probably not as simple as youre hoping. You'd have to know the approriate commands to issue for the POP3 and SMTP protocols. How about trying a POP3 email client instead?

I am already using pop mail client ie. Eudora but I wanna connect and test the another way by connecting to the yahoo mail through telnet. Could u plz tell some sites relevant to this stuff? thanks

As far as I know yahoo mail is web based and doesn't have POP3 and SMTP servers. Technically you could access the webserver by doing something like: telnet mail.yahoo.com 80 But they haven't made it very easy so it's not just filling in a few form fields and then proceed. They use a javascript version of the MD5 algorithm to send your name and password. After that you get some kind of a key back which is used to access the rest of your mail box. So it isn't exactly easy, but ofcourse all things are possible if you are creative and persistent. Mik

manish, can you help me know how u managed to connect to yahoo using eudora. i am trying it , but no luck. thanks.

i have tried to connect mail.yahoo.com through telnet but i could not get connected.i typed "telnet mail.yahoo.com 80" at command promt but not connected.can any one help me in doing that?i am behind a firewall will this effect in getting connected? thanks