On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:13:12AM -0700, Easthope wrote: > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses > 1025. According to > http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers > 1025 is assigned to blackjack! (blackjack?) So what > is SMTP doing with it? I've never seen SMTP use 1025. If you were to do SMTP-over-SSH, you'd be using port 22 (ssh's port). When I do IMAP-over-SSH, what I'm doing is 1) opening up an SSH connection to remote-host (over port 22) 2) running imapd on that end 3) catching the stdout from imapd on my end 4) closing the connection So basically I'm doing this command: ssh remote-host /usr/sbin/imapd | some-local-process If you were doing SMTP-over-SSH, I guess you'd be doing something similar. But for reasons that I don't want to take the time to list, it seems like you wouldn't be doing the same thing with SMTP. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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