>
>
>you can try finding the email address of a given user like that
>
>my machine name here is kevin.kplab.com but my email addy isnt
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], nor [EMAIL PROTECTED] its
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes but you can do nslookup on bestweb.net to obtain the address of say
mail.bestweb.net and send the mail for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] there without using your own smtp server , can't you?
>
>you dont know if sendmail is running on localhost, nor if the mail server they
>ACTUALY use shares a primany domain with the localhost.
>
>best just to ask, although it would be nice to see the programme make an
>educated guess.
>
>robin-david hammond
>lead systems engineer
>KPL
>
>
>From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Implementing mailto: Mac
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>
>>
>>Thanks to Dave and Sjoerd for arriving at the elegant 2-line solution on a PC:
>>
>>put word 1 to -2 of \
>>
>>queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command
>>\") \
>> into tBrowserPath
>>launch "mailto:"&tAddress with tBrowserPath
>
>I think originally you wanted to do this within MC. I just found out there is
>nslookup for windows (probably a port from Linux) which can be called with
>"shell()"
>and return the mail server given the domain name([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
>Nslookup is here: http://www.trumphurst.com/dnsocx/nslookup.exe
>and the dos commands are :
>
>Using nslookup, you can find the email server of your domain, as shown in the
>sample session below.
> Start a MS-DOS command prompt (in our case we use shell()) and type the
>nslookup command:
>
> C:\> nslookup
> Default Server: youserver.yourdomain
> Address: X.X.X.X
> > set type=MX
> > microsoft.com
> microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger =
>mail1.microsoft.com
> microsoft.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger =
>mail2.microsoft.com
> microsoft.com MX preference = 30, mail exchanger =
>mail3.microsoft.com
> microsoft.com MX preference = 40, mail exchanger =
>mail4.microsoft.com
> microsoft.com MX preference = 50, mail exchanger =
>mail5.microsoft.com
> The lowest preference indicates the best (primary) mail server. A mailer
>would try it first and if it
> cannot connect to this server, it would use other servers (by order of
>preference).
>
>>
>>Now... Does anyone have the AppleEvent equivalent for a Mac?
>
>I also found a perl script which gets the mail server name from
>InternetConfig. It just needs to be translated into Metatalk:
>
>use Mac::InternetConfig;
> print $InternetConfig{kICSMTPHost()};
>
>I tested it and it works I just don't know perl ;-)
>
>>
>>/H
>>Hugh Senior
>
>
>
>
>
>XIIdigitation, n.:
> The practice of trying to determine the year a movie was made
>by deciphering the Roman numerals at the end of the credits.
> -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
>
>
>
>
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>.
Regards, Andu
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