Re: [ILUG-BOM] sendmail/localhost

[Philip S Tellis]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Satya wrote:

> My scripts and pine do the same thing (DSM) but only my scripts' output is
> unaffected by sendmail's masquerade rules.

Try and figure out the switches that pine uses when it calls sendmail.

> > But when you make the smtp connection yourself, you can rewrite the mail
> > from: line to show the correct address.  This is what oe and nm do.
> 
> Which, for some reason I've forgotten about, I don't want to do.

There are a few reasons why you would be better off using smtp rather than
sendmail. The major one being portability.  Your code would then work
regardless of which mta is being used.

Philip


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