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Date:      Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:58:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
To:        Peter Brezny <peter@skyrunner.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port 587, submission
Message-ID:  <20010827195811.49597.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <NNEHJMNKGDNGPMJJFHCBGECMCBAA.peter@skyrunner.net>

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--- Peter Brezny <peter@skyrunner.net> wrote:
> What does this port do?
> 
> Peter Brezny
> Skyrunner.net
>   
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Found this answer in the mailing list archives. It's a
great place to start before sending them to
-questions...

http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists
----------------

"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
"---------------
--Tim

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