Help installing telnet

@harizen:

What am I missing?
About 20 years of security best practice policies.

No one uses Telnet - use SSH instead.

Yeah, fortunately I am aware of that.

Apologies for not mentioning why I need it.

I am setting up postfix and I am getting the error

ct 19 19:53:36 lixxx-xxx postfix/smtpd[17896]: warning: xsaslcyrusservergetmechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms

Oct 19 19:53:36 lixxx-xxx2 postfix/smtpd[17896]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

In order to debug, telnet to localhost is very helpful.

Thanks for any help,

@harizen:

In order to debug, telnet to localhost is very helpful.
telnet-client maybe instead of the daemon (telnetd)?

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Travis

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/inetutils-telnet

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/telnet-ssl

I installed

apt-get install inetutils-telnet

Appreciate your help very much!

Now turn off telnetd unless you really want people to connect with passwords in plaintext?