Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[Jason Rumney]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We don't want that to get in the way of an Emacs user who wants to
>> report a bug, for example.
>
> Another random idea: If that's the main problem, then if the gnu.org MTA
> would open a listening port on port 587, and accept mail to gnu.org on
> that port, then we could just have the bug reports use
> `smtpmail-send-it' to eggs.gnu.org:587 directly...

Why port 587?  Port 25 is the standard for incoming mail to the mail
server's domain.