On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:18:57 +0200
Jaroslaw Rafa via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dnia 12.08.2026 o godz. 21:54:37 Joe via Postfix-users pisze:
> > I did think it must be possible, I'm just not used to thinking of
> > email senders as 'clients'.  
> 
> When computer A initiates a connection to the computer B, in *any
> context*, computer A is *always* client and computer B is *always*
> server (for this particular connection, you can have simultaneously a
> connection in the reverse direction with the roles reversed). It's as
> simple as that :)

Yes, I understand that, I've just spent twenty years running exim4,
where 'client' denotes the devices in the LAN, rather than external
Internet users, who are known as 'senders'. Just reorientation to a
different terminology set.

-- 
Joe
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