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Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ?

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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes:

[...]

> It has LONG been possible to configure most / main stream web browsers
> to support protocols, a.k.a. schemes, like ftp://, file://, telnet://, 
> mailto://, etc.

Right.  Can we add our own schemes now?

> It was probably in the 10 years prior to that when they removed the
> telnet:// protocol / scheme.

IIRC, even Windows removed telnet from the default installation.  What a
shame.  I have it here on Windows 10, but I might have explicitly asked
for it.

> Once upon a time I configured Firefox to support the ssh:// protocol /
> scheme to open ssh in an XTerm window.

So, I suppose we can register our own protocols.  That's actually cool.
If that's so, I might start thinking up ways of using it.

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Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-07 11:06 -0700
  Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-07 22:27 +0000
    Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> - 2021-01-08 08:48 +0000
    Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2024-03-12 10:17 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-03-12 12:28 +0100
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-12 13:12 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-03-12 10:31 -0300
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-12 21:45 -0500
          Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-03-13 16:44 -0300
            Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-13 23:38 -0500
              Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? dbastos@ic.ufrj.br - 2024-03-14 08:12 -0300
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-14 13:30 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-14 21:18 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-15 14:20 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-15 15:54 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-03-19 07:40 -0300
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-19 13:20 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 08:35 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-19 14:45 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 18:32 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 08:26 -0500
          Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2024-03-19 15:46 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2024-03-13 05:56 +0000
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2024-03-14 07:38 +0000
          Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Sovann Pacey <spacey@vapupe.com> - 2024-03-14 08:16 -0300

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