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> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:39:56 +0200
> 
> Another random idea: If that's the main problem, then if the gnu.org MTA
> would open a listening port on port 587, and accept mail to gnu.org on
> that port, then we could just have the bug reports use
> `smtpmail-send-it' to eggs.gnu.org:587 directly...

If that's possible, it's even better, yes.  However, I wonder if the
GNU sysadmins would really like the idea of millions of Emacs users
suddenly hitting their mail server...