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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:24:17 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Paul Fardy <pdfardy@mac.com>
Cc:        imp@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from   nobody:nogroup to www:www planned)
Message-ID:  <3C4FB6A1.142BBE62@mindspring.com>
References:  <41CAAE84-1080-11D6-9155-00039359034A@mac.com>

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Paul Fardy wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I think that the user:
> >
> >       smmsp           Sendmail Mail Submission Protocol
> >
> > should be changed to:
> >
> >       mspd            Mail Submission Protocol Daemon
> >
> > to be agnostic to the program using it.
> 
> But isn't it a Sendmail protocol?
> 
>     (print $headers; print; print $body) | $msp [-f <sender>] [-t]
>     (print $headers; print; print $body) | $msp [-f <sender>] <rcpt> ...
> 
> I guess that's minimal support for the SMMSP, though headers could be
> non-existent.

No.  It is a protocol seperate from SMTP, specifically to deal
with mail submission.  By the same token, ATRN servers rarely
run on the SMTP port.

-- Terry

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