>>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> AFAIK most MTAs can be convinced to use a different port. I Kai> wonder why that is? You are missing the point. How often do these things have to be done? How difficult is it to install two different MTA's as things stand? Kai> I know that Exim has support to talk to a SMTP server on an Kai> arbitrary port. I see no reason to assume other MTAs can't do Kai> the same. I wonder why that is? If you do not know, I do not think you should really be participating in this discussion. If you do know, you perhsaps should not be participating here with this inflamatory stance either. Kai> I have a machine running two different Exim konfigurations at Kai> the same time, one not involving listening on any port. Separate Kai> spools, separate logs. I wonder why one of those couldn't be a Kai> different MTA? And how commohn a practice do you think that is? Kai> As for NNTP, you've heard of port nntps? And then there's the Kai> option of running server-to-server NNTP on arbitrary ports. How common is this? John> These aren't real reasons at all. >> >> Given that, you have a curious definition of >> ``real''. Unfortunately, I do not think I find your definition of >> real very interesting. Kai> His seems to be about the same as mine. Your "real reasons" boil Kai> down to "I don't know why you'd want to do that", which is a Kai> piss-poor reason for *anything*. Bullshit. You have totally missed the point of my message, and have the gall to come in with a cendescending flammage that is ill condusive to any further discussion. Until you show you have the basic understanding of what is called the common case, I have nothing to say to you. manoj and we were too having a reasoably sane discussion until now -- I don't think I'm gonna agree with that. Way too much visual confusion... Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C