On 16 Jun 2019, at 16:27, @lbutlr wrote:
On 16 Jun2019, at 12:05, Bill Cole
<postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
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As the OP says, they support an outbound "smarthost" connector,
Not a term I’ve heard before.
The term "smarthost" dates from the days when it was fairly common for
some hosts to know more about how to route email than others, the days
before ubiquitous Internet connectivity and before that included DNS
and/or before DNS was adequate to find the route to all mailable
domains. So some hosts were smarter than others and it was quite common
for many hosts to only know a friendly nearby "smarthost."
The terminology remains because the basic model of operation remains
useful, even when the rationale is no longer how "smart" an outbound
gateway might be.
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