Re: /etc/services losses

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Mouse wrote in
 <202308031802.OAA16313%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>:
 |> Hm, but especially :25 was traditionally used by MUAs, no?
 |> Who used the submission port ~a decade ago?
 |
 |User agents.  I'm pretty sure submission was a thing _two_ decades ago,
 |though IIRC not all that big a thing.  (Mind you, it may not have been
 |on the port it's on today, but there was something SMTPish that was
 |designed for MUA submissions, on a separate port.)

Well ok submission (not -s) seems to have been invented (RFCd) in
1998.  BUt i am very sure i have submitted mails via MUA to port
25 some time in the past.

--steffen
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