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You can use telnet or nc to achieve the same thing in Terminal.

On Unix machines, you can do this using the systems telnet command to connect to the right port number.

For example, telnet mailserver.example.com 25 might enable you to talk directly to the SMTP service running on a mail server.

Really there is no actual protocol at all; the bytes sent down the connection are exactly the ones you type, and the bytes shown on the screen are exactly the ones sent by the server.

Unix telnet will attempt to detect or guess whether the service it is talking to is a real Telnet service or not; PuTTY prefers to be told for certain.

Something Like Putty Mac OS X Does

To my knowledge, the telnet client for Mac OS X does not support either method.

PuTTY does. You might try SSL Enabler which uses stunnel to create encrypted sessions.

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