Well yes, but the calling end will be using 23 for the telnet program.

Otherwise I concur

Al

-----Original Message-----

On Apr 30, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Allen <profox@gatwicksoftware.com> wrote:

> Telnet is port 23. That is usually blocked. SMTP is port 25 (normally) and

is not always blocked else email would never get through.

telnet mail.leafe.com 25

Port 23 is only used for telnet-telnet communication. Most of the

time a host and port are specified.

-- Ed Leafe

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