mconnect

## Name

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

## Synopsis

`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.