Re: Delivering mail through nmh via SMTP...

"Andy Bradford" <[email protected]> 17 Aug 2021 18:50:01 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.nmh.devel,gmane.mail.exmh.user
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Thus said David Levine on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:28:29 -0700:

> Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port 587 instead of 25 for SMTP
> submission.

Personally I  think this was a  mistake. SMTP is port  25, SUBMISSION is
port 587.  If something says  SMTP, what comes to  mind is port  25, not
587.

$ grep smtp /etc/services; grep submission /etc/services
smtp            25/tcp          mail
smtps           465/tcp                         # SSL-wrapped SMTP
submission      587/tcp         msa             # mail message submission
submission      587/udp         msa             # mail message submission

Andy