From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 11:28:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F82037B724 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B1BD9215; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:28:30 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Marc W Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 587/tcp ? Message-ID: <20010403202830.V490@cgmd76206.chello.nl> References: <200104031819.LAA61520@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104031819.LAA61520@akira.lanfear.com>; from mwlist@lanfear.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:19:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:19:38AM -0700, Marc W wrote: > > > what is the service using "submission 587/tcp"? > > > > It's for the submission of smtp-email (maybe other email too), so > > that port 25 will be used for talking between MTAs and port 587 > > will be used for talking between MUA and MTA's. > > > > MUA: Mail User Agent, your mailreader > > MTA: Mail Transfer Agent, postfix/sendmail et al > > So was it true at some point in time that MUAs should connect to > port 587 for SMTP instead of port 25, or does a MTA like Sendmail know > to move to port 587 when an MUA connects? The first one. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message