[kwlug-disc] Testing a mail port

[B.S.]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Testing a mail port
> 
> The up-to-date RFC for e-mail is RFC5321, updated by RFC7504 for some
> additional error codes.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7504
> 
> Dense reading, but the final arbiter for the mail standard.
> 
> The IETF has a "Standards Track", where a particular standard, say 
> SMTP,
> is given a fixed number, STD10. The text in STD10 should be replaced as
> the RFCs are updated. But the current STD10 document still contains RFC821:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/std10
> 
> This is probably because RFC2821 (now obsolete) never made it past
> "Draft Standard", and RFC5321 is still a "Proposed 
> Standard".
> 
> 
> As far as a presentation for 'nc' and 'dig' go, there must be 
> plenty of
> people who don't know all the commands in /bin and /usr/bin - literally
> thousands of them!  I wouldn't mind having an evening of ultra-short
> demos of CLI commands.  Everyone who attends has a few minutes (5? 10?)
> to show off their favorite command(s).  Duplication is perfectly OK,
> since you might grep in a different way than I grep.  Live dangerously,
> no set speaker roster, just whoever happens to be there.
> 
> --Bob, who just learned about the 'host' command today.

This is actually a good kwlug web page idea, too.

'Favourite commands' / 'Favourite uses'.

You could also turn the idea around, too: Given X, which $PATH cmds would be helpful.