--- Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> As for sending mail from a command line, you'd want to use the
> JavaMail API
> to do this... it wouldn't be very hard to write a command line
> program that
> sends locally (by default), and takes stdin as the message. If you
> want to
> contribute that, this might make it easier to have James replace
> sendmail.
>
Hrmmm. I might be able to do that if I can find the time. I will look
at it tonight. The idea I guess would be to write a sendmail wrapper
that could be pointed to from the /etc/mail/mailer.conf (FreeBSD
4.3-RELEASE). I "should" be able to do this. I could also write a
generic mail wrapper that buypasses needing sendmail at all and instead
just sends to port 25 or wherever it is told. We will see...
> Just out of curiosity, why do you want to replace sendmail with
> James? (let
> me know offline if you'd prefer)
I would like to avoid dual configurations for MTAs on my machine(s). We
are not talking about a hugely robust mail server at the moment (or in
the forseeable future) and I can accept a slower yet more easily
configured (for those of us who are not in the sendmail/procmail/qmail
guru camp) MTA. If this is "silly" I'll need someone to slap me upside
the head and tell me so. :) (seriously).
I am however concerned that if the James "daemon" goes down that things
are going to fail hard. With other MTAs the loss of email when the
service is down is less of an issue since I believe that they use the
filesystem as a queue and simply process from there. Would it be
possible to do this with James? Writing to the filesystem and having
James read in the queue from there seems a little more "safe" in terms
of lost emails from local users and automated messages from the system.
Brian
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Brian S. Lloyd-Newberry
Vertical Learning Curve Solutions
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