On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Satya wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2000 at 23:09, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> > Not entirely true. I tried writing directly to sendmail as did satya
> > through his perl program. Neither worked. The mail still bounced. The
> > problem was as much with sendmail as it was with pine.
>
> Whoa. I tried sendmail -bs in my perl prog, and it sorta worked. but it
> gave a lot of 'command unrecognized' errors... I think I blew past
> sendmail's stdin buffer. It seems to work, though.
Which is basically what sendmail.alias does, but it is not dependant on
the mta. It makes an smtp connection to port 25 rather than open sendmail
in bs mode. Same protocol though. You (and I) are using mail relay which
is why it works.
Philip
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