Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting Steve Bibayoff as of Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:34:41PM -0700:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Apr 4, 2005 1:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I want to email simple text files from the command line.
> > > 
> > > What's the simplest/smallest setup I can use (not sendmail) to
> > > allow use of the mail program from the command line to go to a
> > > server?
> > 
> > Not the simplest, but smallest:
> > 
> > % telnet mailhost 25
> > HELO
> > ....
> > etc
> 
> Heh. I was going to suggest this very thing. Oh, well...

And also one of the worst. What do you do on a temporary error? Queue
and try again? Upon failure? Send a note to the originator? Congrats!
You just scripted an MTA!

-john
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