On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is
> that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmail. And that really
> hits your cross-platform compatibility.
Why is this a problem? /usr/lib/sendmail is the published interface. You
cannot rely on an SMTP listener, especially on a web-server.
/usr/lib/sendmail -t -oem
is your friend.... (and remember to check $?)
Admittedly, this may break on any system that uses the MTA which shall not
be named[1], but I think that bit of its /usr/lib/sendmail interface works
properly.
[1] qm**l
MBM
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