Let us hope that someone somewhere is fixing the "not so clever"
function of Linux/Unix "sendmail." If they don't, it soon will be
impossible to send e-mail from that platform.
Remember the bit about "open relays" and messages being refused because
they come from an known open relay? Welp, soon all relays will be
closed. And when "spammers" have to find a new way to send their stuff,
so will the people currently stuck with the non-functionality of that
"sendmail."
If places are requiring authentication, I guess someone needs to figure
out how to provide it by revising Arachne [DOS & Linux versions].
l.d.
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:38:42 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil wrote:
>> Seems to me this is all the more reason that someone in the DOS world
>> should try to emulate the clever functionality of Linux/Unix "sendmail",
>> which does not depend on a designated smtp host. It just goes out and
>> finds an smtp host in the recipient's domain, and skips the middleman.
> It's pretty useless IMHO since you can't (AFAIK) use it to subscribe to
> mailinglists (you can not verify who it was that sent the mail in a good way).
> If we instead could add this feature to Arachnes sendmail.c it would be
> even better, so once again, "all" we need is the correct RFC.
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