Name
mconnect — connect to a line-protocol server on a remote host.
Description
mconnect uses tcpclient(1) to connect to TCP port port
on host
, and then runs mconnect-io(1).
Its default use is to enable UNIX tools to have a conversation with a network SMTP server.
If port
is not supplied, the default is 25.
If host
is not supplied, the default is the local host.
See also
- tcpcat(1)
a unidirectional straight pass-through client
History
mconnect was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's ucspi-tcp toolset in 1999.
Author
Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein.
Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.