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Re: /usr/sbin/sendmail specification proposal, draft 5



alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)  wrote on 29.11.99 in <E11sYrg-0005vF-00@the-village.bc.nu>:

> > Therefore, there are only two standardizable interfaces:
> >
> > 	* /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > 	* SMTP to port 25 on localhost
>
> There is only one. Lots of people block port 25 localhost so that users cant
> submit local spoofed mail.

I'd be pretty upset if some program required me to put an SMTP listener on  
my router. Currently it runs SSMTP for the sendmail CLI, in the future I  
may be doing the same with Exim, but a SMTP listener is Right Out[tm].

MfG Kai


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