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Not aware of an SMTP replacement, that will be a real doozy. Maybe one day FastMail or Google will write a new overcomplicated poorly-documented API-driven cant
by peterwwillis 6y ago
Not aware of an SMTP replacement, that will be a real doozy. Maybe one day FastMail or Google will write a new overcomplicated poorly-documented API-driven cant-do-anything-without-15-layers-of-abstraction replacement and we can spend a couple trillion dollars on replacement gear and new features.
I still like SMTP. Just last year I was able to find the owner of a random smtp box that nobody knew where it was or who it belonged to, by telnet-ing to port 25 and typing out an e-mail to 'root'. Got a response from an admin an hour later. You gotta respect a protocol that you can use directly with nothing but a network socket and a terminal, using the same protocol syntax you learned two decades before.