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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 Atom - installation troubles
Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2014 08:29:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f5f01a6daf45fac261d6f95d508b520@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca5122c65cc68d008bca71096c52a609@proxima.alt.za>

On Sat Dec  6 05:38:15 PST 2014, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > smtp=host!987
>
> Too clever!  I'm not sure it would work, though, because in
> /sys/src/upas/smtp/mxdial.c the invocation is explicitly:
>
> 	addr = netmkaddr(addr, 0, "smtp");
>

this works, and it's common practice.  if it did not work,
telnet wouldn't work on anything other than port 23.

the reading of the 3d argument is "default port", not
we're forcing this port come hell or high water.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-06 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-05 10:02 lucio
2014-12-05 14:20 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-05 17:47   ` lucio
2014-12-06 19:02     ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-07  4:26       ` lucio
2014-12-07  5:15       ` lucio
2014-12-07  7:26         ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-07  7:33         ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-05 18:04   ` lucio
2014-12-05 18:15     ` lucio
2014-12-05 20:38       ` Wes Kussmaul
2014-12-05 21:23         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-06  4:43           ` lucio
2014-12-05 22:21       ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-06  4:57         ` lucio
2014-12-06 16:34           ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-06 18:12             ` lucio
2014-12-06 18:53               ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-06  5:06         ` lucio
2014-12-06  9:09         ` lucio
2014-12-06  9:27           ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-06 10:28           ` Quintile
2014-12-06 13:40             ` lucio
2014-12-06 16:29               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-12-06 16:42                 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-06 17:47                   ` lucio
2014-12-06 13:43             ` lucio
2014-12-06 14:06               ` lucio
2014-12-06 14:30             ` lucio

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