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hey @wallhackio, if you were forced to tf into a ground type, which would it be?

@Lady @Satsuma @wallhackio with the current state of the NLRB, i would recommend avoiding having to do this

@vaporeon_ (remote) email delivery is an act of server-to-server commewnication, in more or less the same way AP works. the client authenticates with their server to author a message as threatened themself; the actual mail delivery is defurred to the MTA you requested send an email on your behalf. (without requiring authentication, SMTP makes no guarantees that anybody authoring a message is actually the purrson they are claiming to be, and you could send infinite emails as any arbitrary purrson)

theoretically, you could effectively impurrsonate an MTA and purrform a server to server exchange to send mail to a recipient, which is another vector fur spam; the ways to deal with this are, unfurtunately, quite layered lol

@vaporeon_

Your e-mail client sends the message to the mail server (MTA) where you [the sender] have an account (how? which protocol does that part of the connection use?)

this is SMTP. you connect to a mail server, send it some mail to relay, and then it will relay that mail. strictly, this does not require authentication, but nobody allows that anymore these days because the spam potential is enormous otherwise

It finds the receiver's mail server by looking up the MX record for the receiver's domain?

yes. setting up DNS is more much complicated fur Many Reasons, however

That article by Cloudflare also implies that there might be multiple hops, rather than the sender's mail server connecting directly to the receiver's mail server? When does that happen?

very large mail service purroviders might have complex MTA networks passing mail along multiple servers. fur whatever reason. i’m really not sure why, besides load balancing. if you inspect the headers fur a lot of emails you receive, there will often be a papurr trail left behind detailing some of the shenanigans

And then the Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) just handles IMAP with the receiver's e-mail client?

this is still SMTP. the MDA takes mails that are identified as being handled locally and places them in the relevant mailbox. if you set up a basic mail server on your machine, it will purrobably be set up by default to include an MDA fur sending mail to on-machine users

@vaporeon_ it’s cute

@vaporeon_ yes you get it

@vaporeon_ dont make me angy uwu

@vaporeon_ in base game you could only get it from having save data fur let’s go eevee, in which partner eevee can’t evolve

@packbat avacado oil

@vaporeon_ i tf into shiny espeon sometimes

@vaporeon_ wait, are you aware i tf my avatar daily

@wallhackio i lost half a day to not realizing i was registering a submit event handler on the wrong form

@vaporeon_ i like mega absol though so it works out anyway