Hi Daniel,

> First, thanks for bringing it back. I had pushed it a bit too far
> away in my brain to bring it back on my own!

No problem ;-)

> I think making it behave consistently makes sense so please
> rebase the patch and resubmit it and let's get it merged.

No worries - Just downloading v7.22.0 source from GIT as we speak.

> I also think we should document that an SMTP client using
> libcurl is encouraged to provide the actual host name in the
> URL so that libcurl won't have to guess (wrongly) about it.
> It probably makes sense to add a whole section somewhere
> about the special things and feature we have in URLs for
> protocols. (And refer to that from the CURLOPT_URL description in
> curl_easy_setopt.3 and the --url description in curl.1)
>
> Possibly a new section to add to libcurl.3 ?

Indeed - Is this something you would like me to do?

I understand that the format of the URL for SMTP to be:

smtp://<server address>:<port number>/<hostname>

For example:

smtp://smtp.domain.com:25/hostnametouse.domain.com

Kind Regards

Steve

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