>>> Hm, but especially :25 was traditionally used by MUAs, no? >>> Who used the submission port ~a decade ago? >> User agents. [...] > 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.
Oh, certainly. So have I. But when doing that either it's a full-fledged message or the SMTP server in question is being nice and waving off any violations (possibly for everyone, possibly just for configured-as-local clients). Anyhow, this is getting off-topic for /etc/services. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B