Thus said "Andy Bradford" on 17 Aug 2021 18:50:01 -0600: > Thus said David Levine on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:28:29 -0700: > > > Starting with nmh 1.7, nmh defaults to port 587 instead of 25 for > > SMTP submission. > > Personally I think this was a mistake. SMTP is port 25, SUBMISSION is > port 587. If something says SMTP, what comes to mind is port 25, not > 587.
Let me clarify what I meant since I was looking at mts.conf when I read your comment... (obviously you did mention submission). Here is what is in mts.conf (much of which is mirrored in mh-tailor(5): # The delivery method to use, which must be one of the following: # smtp: nmh opens a socket connection to the appropriate port # on the servers listed below and speaks SMTP to the # first one that responds. This is the default. # sendmail/smtp: nmh pipes messages directly to the sendmail program, # speaking SMTP. Can be abbreviated to "sendmail". # sendmail/pipe: nmh pipes messages directly to the sendmail program, # using the -t option so that addresses are retrieved # from the message. I think a new value for mts should have been invented called "submission" that would be used in place of smtp. Also, given that is it not possible to change the smtp/submission port in mts.conf, this further bolsters the argument that it should probably not have changed to 587 by default and a new mts method invented. Andy