Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:43:41 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine Message-ID: <27398.1329939821@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <4F44E576.5000006@ifdnrg.com>
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In message <4F44E576.5000006@ifdnrg.com>, Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> wrote: >On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts >> like an SMTP server. However it appears to me that it only accepts e-mail >> for one very specific email address,<...@example.com>, where the '...' >> part is actually a long (unique?) string of letter and numbers that I found >> on one of the config printout pages that I generated when I was installing >> this thing. I have no idea what this is all about. I successfully sent >> a short test e-mail to that address, manually typing in all of the necessary >> SMTP commands (via telnet to port 25) and nothing whatsoever happened. I ha >d >> kind-of been expecting that what I sent (via SMTP) would be printed, but it >> just didn't happen. Maybe I need to sent it a MIME-encoded message instead >(?) >... >I doubt you can email it print jobs... Well, I can't think of any other reason why the printer would be running an SMTP _server_. I mean it isn't as if it is going to be handling outgoing e-mail for anybody. Regards, rfg
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