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Re: Please consider replace src/dist/nvi with nvi2



On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:31:14AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> How? I use getaddrinfo(3) to find a "smtp" service, and I think such
> an assumption is already standard and reasonable enough.

No, you can't expect to have something listening on the smtp port on
the local machine. In the default setup, NetBSD doesn't have anything
listening on port 25. You don't have to have the port 25 open to be
able to send mail.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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