[IRCServices] About new Version...

[Andrew Kempe]

ok folks, time to move to ircservices-coding.

Thanks, Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan George" <jonathan at lite.net>
To: <ircservices at delirious.shadowfire.org>
Cc: <anarki at flaimebait.org>; <chromi at cyberspace.org>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] About new Version...


> I've implemented this before in two IRC-based projects I've done.
>
> Your best bet is to use popen(3) to open sendmail, and then just
> write the email to the given pipe.  This has it's advantages because:
>
> a) You don't have to read() from the pipe.
> b) You don't have to try to send email again if the first one
> bounces.
> c) Generally most popular MTA's (Qmail is a definite one) include
> a drop-in sendmail replacement, OR they just leave sendmail alone.
> Sendmail is both a client and server, and there is no reason it can't be
> left alone just to be used to pipe mail into.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan George, CEO
> MultiList Central
> www.MultiListCentral.com
>
> |> .. where >>> precedes a line sent by the server, and <<< precedes one
sent by
> |> the client.  Note the blank line separating the Subject: header from
the
> |> message body.  Completely RFC compliant and easy to implement.  Also
notice my
> |> MTA (in the 'greeting' line) is not Sendmail, but another popular
alternative
> |> called Exim.  No problem if the mail-sending routines are implemented
in "SMTP
> |> client" form but a potential PITA [pain in the a**] if you wanted to
use
> |> command-line sending.  Obviously some error-handling must be built in
> |> (500-series numbers in particular mean a rejected delivery) but this is
pretty
> |> trivial.
> |
> |I can see that then, thank you for clearing that up :)
>
>
>
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