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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Subject: Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine
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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