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PuTTY closes when opening SMTP over Telnet on certain server

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Mar 15, 202611725 views
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I have PuTTY installed on Vista. When I set it to Telnet and put in a host name of SMTP2Go.com and port of 25 the window opens for a second not showing any text then closes. I also tried ports 2525, 587, and 8025, which SMTP2Go says also work with the same result. I use Telnet from the command prom…

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Fix for: PuTTY closes when opening SMTP over Telnet on certain server

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Just select "Raw" in the "Connection type" field and it will work OK. From PuTTY's documentation: A lot of Internet protocols are composed of commands and responses in plain text. For example, SMTP (the protocol used to transfer e-mail), NNTP (the p…

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