Mouse wrote in <202308031802.oaa16...@stone.rodents-montreal.org>: |> Hm, but especially :25 was traditionally used by MUAs, no? |> Who used the submission port ~a decade ago? | |User agents. I'm pretty sure submission was a thing _two_ decades ago, |though IIRC not all that big a thing. (Mind you, it may not have been |on the port it's on today, but there was something SMTPish that was |designed for MUA submissions, on a separate port.)
Well ok submission (not -s) seems to have been invented (RFCd) in 1998. BUt i am very sure i have submitted mails via MUA to port 25 some time in the past. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
