Joe via Postfix-users:
> 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.
In the context of SMTP, I guess it is never too late to adopt SMTP
terminology.
Wietse
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