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Re: [PATCH] ME's SMTP relay patch ported to CVS



On Tuesday, 06 September 2005 at 21:57, Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Tue 06-Sep-2005 at 11:39 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> 
> > Attached is Michael Elkins' SMTP relay patch patch.me.smtp.3 ported to
> > 1.5.10. I've replaced smtp_host with smtp_url so you can override the
> > port
> 
> Why not make it default to port 587 (RFC 2476 Message Submission)
> and rename it "msp_url"?
>
> You would be adding support for an MUA protocol rather than an MTA
> protocol - This would be more appropriate for mutt it seems.
> 
> Users can then specify port 25 if they want, but there would be no
> implication that this is going to support every conceivable SMTP
> extension if the feature is called --enable-msp rather than

I think this would just cause confusion, until port 587 is widely
deployed by ISPs. I think most other MUAs still refer to SMTP servers
in their configuration directives anyway.

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