On 19/01/2018 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >>>> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>>>>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >>>>>> you? It certainly has all the functionality. >>>>> >>>>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that >>>>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards >>>>> delivery. >>>> >>>> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can >>>> do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing >>>> complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of >>>> sendmail, though I know much less about it know. >>> >>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >>> SMTP server? >> >> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. >> >> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to >> hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. > > Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that > has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. >
Got it now. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
