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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