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[Scott Seufert]

I'm not an expert in mail transport, but don't many applications use
sendmail because it's easy and RFC compliant? It's seems to me that every
app/script I have ever seen that has any form of mail option uses sendmail
or has an SMTP server option. Especially since sendmail is a SMTP server.

I personally would not like to see services act as an SMTP server in any
since of the word. The use of Sendmail is very common place, and for those
that do not or can not use sendmail to have an SMTP server option plus the
option to NOT use the mail and use the GETPASS command, should be defined in
the conf or an ifdef in ./configure.

Scott Seufert
aka Anarki
aka katsklaw
Server Administrator
NoDoze.ShadowFire.Org


on 7/17/00 8:54 AM, Jonathan Morton at chromi at cyberspace.org wrote:

>>> You could do two things with this, use it to send passwords that users
>>> forget, and take Memoserv to an entirely new level by allowing a send only
>>> function.  If someone is using sendmail, I'm pretty sure there would be
>>> little to no code involved with shelling out to sendmail and firing off an
>>> email. :)  I'm not a programmer, but I have seen several scripts that do
>> it,
>>> and it's usually as simple as issuing a sendmail command with the proper
>>> parms.
> 
>> You're right, forwarding memos to email addresses would be very simple.
> 
> Not everyone uses Sendmail, and the command-line interfaces of other MTAs
> may be significantly different.  However, sending an SMTP session down port
> 25 of localhost shouldn't be any more difficult to implement, and is
> guaranteed compatible with any MTA.  Fetchmail uses this approach, although
> it also supports piping direct into Sendmail.  The only configuration
> option required by the MTA in this instance is to allow relaying to any
> domain from localhost.  If the MTA is on another machine, it would be
> helpful to allow configuration of Services to use that machine rather than
> localhost, and this can be done easily once the SMTP session is implemented.
> 
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