Re: Sending bug reports without setting up email

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Of course, nowadays this is becoming a losing proposition: MTAs only
> accept email from the sender's official MTA.  So you (the sender) first
> need to send your email (via TLS) to your MTA, and *it* will then send
> it (maybe in the clear maybe not) to the recipient's MTA.

No, MTAs accept messages for their own recipients, of course.  A few
block incoming connections from non-MTA hosts, but that's pretty rare.

But quite a few ISPs block port 25 (and some block the SMTP submission
port, too) for outgoing traffic.  In that case you have to talk to your
local MTA.

I don't have any numbers, but when travelling the past few years I've
never had any trouble talking to the SMTP submission port on the MTA I
use in Norway, so blocking is pretty rare from hotel wifis and the like,
at least.

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