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mconnect connect to a line-protocol server on a remote host.
`mconnect` host port

## 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.