> Emile wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if NMH is able to deliver outgoing mails
> > to localhost:1025 (that corresponds to davmail) instead of using
> > port 25, as the SMTP default ?
>
> Yes, by using the -port switch to send(1).
>
> Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port
> Many thanks for your reply but how do you tell "send" to use
> an alternate port (1025 rather than 587) ?
>
> I suppose this can be done via ~/.mh_profile tuning, right ?
Right, this would look like:
>send: -mime
send: -mime -server localhost -port 1025
For various reasons,
Thus said David Levine on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:28:29 -0700:
> Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port 587 instead of 25 for SMTP
> submission.
Personally I think this was a mistake. SMTP is port 25, SUBMISSION is
port 587. If something says SMTP, what comes to mind is port 25, not
587.
>> Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port 587 instead of 25 for SMTP
>> submission.
>
>Personally I think this was a mistake. SMTP is port 25, SUBMISSION is
>port 587. If something says SMTP, what comes to mind is port 25, not
>587.
Sigh. I understand why you would say that, but think
Thus said "Andy Bradford" on 17 Aug 2021 18:50:01 -0600:
> Thus said David Levine on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:28:29 -0700:
>
> > Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port 587 instead of 25 for
> > SMTP submission.
>
> Personally I think this was a mistake. SMTP is port 25, SUBMISSION is
> port 5
Thus said Ken Hornstein on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:01:18 -0400:
> 587 is the port that is supposed to be used by MUAs to submit mail.
> nmh is a MUA; it seems perfectly logical to me that the default that
> is used by nmh is the submission port.
Yeah, I can see your point though I still think it was
>Yeah, I can see your point though I still think it was an abrupt change
>[though in light of the dwindling number of nmh/exmh users perhaps it's
>perfectly fine for the community].
I take your point about the mts.conf file; perhaps if we had to do it
all over again we'd create a "submission" e
