On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:12:16PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Batched SMTP is a slightly more specialized technique, used when you're > getting a group of messages from some source other than normal SMTP and > injecting them into the mail system all at once. The basic idea is that > you save (i.e. "batch") the transaction that would normally happen on > port 25 to a file, and replay it later. I use this for list mail
I'm sorry, I can't get the idea - wouldn't it be easier if your friends server mta hand all messages adressed to you to the mta on your mashine? > so that > the friend who runs the server where my mail normally goes doesn't have > to deal with the 500 messages a day from all my Debian list How are you able to deal with all these messages? I'm thinking about a filter only letting the interesting subjects pass through. Up to today I have neither been able to define what 'interseting' is, nor do headers always discribe how interesting the body might be. > At any rate, all three of these mechanisms (TCP connection to port 25, > BSMTP, plain sendmail) go through your local mail transport agent, as > does any other normal means of sending mail in Unix. Root on my system has a variable MAIL in his env - is this something used back in history of linux or even unix? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
