sendmail: specifying alternate port

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Jan 12 19:51:46 UTC 2009


On Sunday 11 January 2009 11:04:45 Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> > Busybox 1.12.2 sendmail has port 25 hardcoded and does not parse the port
> > specified in the -H option.  The attached patch adds parsing the port
> > from the -H option (if specified); otherwise, defaults to port 25.
>
> I believe create_and_connect_stream_or_die() itself does port parsing.
> That is, you can specify user:pass at smtp.net:2222 and it will
> automagically connect to port 2222. So this part of the patch is
> redundant.

Sounds like that needs a documentation patch then.

Speaking of which, is http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html current?  I 
notice that http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#item_mdev has no mention 
of the "symlink this into a subdirectory" syntax I've heard mentioned?

Rob


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