>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 01 08:13:09
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz)
>Subject: Re: Help! Smtp authentication?
>On 5 Feb 01 at 22:43, christof Lange wrote:
>> Howard, could you please post this batch file? I would very much like
>> to experiment with it, too. Stuffkey is available to me.
>
>Here is the full file Chris.
Thank you, Howard, for the batch file.
I am a passionate PMAIL user. And as time and again Czech ISPs do
some confusing upgrade I would like to be prepared for the worse.
Presently I am using Arachne as a my email gateway: Arachne does the
transport of the files I read and write with Pegasus.
Before I had used pmpop, smtpop, smtpop11, smtpop12 and fdsmtpop
with various results. Often the POP3 operations were terminated only
by time out, that caused a substantial delay. In the SMTP operations
I made the experience that it sometimes worked, sometimes not. I
suppose that this was due to the authentication problems we have
been discussing on the list.
I would like to return to the older mail transport clients, because
email is more important for me than WWW, and I do not want to have
Arachne installed on every PC only because of email transport. But
in order to do so the mail transport agent has to work not only
sometimes, but ALWAYS. This is why I am interested in your batch
file.
>Some explanation is needed for the complexity: I collect outgoing
>messages in a ``Soup'' packet created by either yarn or readmail.
>The packet is called replies.zip
>o The program, x_spool.exe comes from the uka_ppp package, and
>splits the messages in replies.zip up into separate files, one
>message per file.
>o The program, glue.exe, comes from the pmpop outgoing mail
>transport, by David Harris, for use with the dos Pegasus mailer. It
>converts ordinary Unix style message headers into Pegasus style,
>``glue'' headers.
>o fortune.exe is Bruch Gutherie's enhanced ``for'' command.
I understand that I can apply your method even if I do not use
uka_ppp. I get the msg files directly from PMAIL with the headers
already glued to it. Thus I can reduce the batch file to the spool
section, and I will not need the fortune utilitiy. Am I right?
In order to understand the commandlines I will have to read the
documentations of stuffkey and fdsmtpop again. But it looks very
interesting and I will certainly test it with my servers. Thank you
for new inspiration.
Regards, Christof Lange
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