Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Feb 22 20:23:33 UTC 2012
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In message <4F44E576.5000006 at ifdnrg.com>,
> Paul Macdonald <paul at ifdnrg.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>> Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts
>>> like an SMTP server. However it appears to me that it only accepts e-mail
>>> for one very specific email address,<... at example.com>, where the '...'
>>> part is actually a long (unique?) string of letter and numbers that I found
>>> on one of the config printout pages that I generated when I was installing
>>> this thing. I have no idea what this is all about. I successfully sent
>>> a short test e-mail to that address, manually typing in all of the necessary
>>> SMTP commands (via telnet to port 25) and nothing whatsoever happened. I ha
>> d
>>> kind-of been expecting that what I sent (via SMTP) would be printed, but it
>>> just didn't happen. Maybe I need to sent it a MIME-encoded message instead
>> (?)
>> ...
>> I doubt you can email it print jobs...
>
> Well, I can't think of any other reason why the printer would be running
> an SMTP _server_. I mean it isn't as if it is going to be handling
> outgoing e-mail for anybody.
Scan to email would use it. Possibly also it could email supplies
status messages also, even to an arbitrary non-local address. "Dear
owner, hope your vacation is going well. Just wanted to remind you I'm
low on yellow toner. Also, I think I heard a noise downstairs. It's
probably nothing."
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