----Original Message----
>From: Daniel Berlin
>Sent: 10 May 2005 14:07
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:14 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Zack Weinberg
>>> Sent: 09 May 2005 19:38
>>
>>> Bernard Leak writes:
>>
>>>> Can something be done to make the problem less obstructive?
>>>> It's not obvious that the script should try to be too clever and
>>>> work out which name to use. Mail looks as useful as any name
>>>> it can have hard-coded. However, a comment could be added
>>>> to the script *output*
>>> [... more useful suggestions ...]
>>>
>>> This is where I quietly mention that patches are welcome.
>>>
>>> zw
>>
>>
>> How about an option to format the output suitable for piping straight
>> into "telnet mail.gnu.org 25"?
>>
>
>
> At this point, you might as well rewrite it in Perl and require
> Mail::Mailer, or rewrite it in python, and use smtplib (which is in the
> python standard lib)
I don't think that's a valid comparison. I would venture to suggest that
telnet clients are far more universally installed than Mail::Mailer, or
Python, or Perl, or quite likely even Mail.
cheers,
DaveK
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