Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine

[Warren Block]

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."