On 00:53 11 Aug 2002, Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-10 22:48]: | > | and why are you using a perl script | > | for sending when you have mutt? | > Because, as y'all keep saying, mutt doesn't send email | > or talk to SMTP servers. It hands messages to sendmail. | correct. but why not use an MTA?
The script is the MTA. And because some MTAs are a PITA to configure for many people. And because it may well be infeasible to run a real mail system on one's home box (see below). | > I also use a perl script for this, and point mutt at it as | > the sendmail tool. It's especially handy on "disconnected" | > home machines which have net connections | > but not net-aware local mail systems; .. | eh? disconnected machines with net connections? I mean with default unconfigured sendmail or whatever. Or with no legitimate domain name to use for outgoing return information; to run a mail service you really do need a valid reply domain, at least for the addresses (From:) that you permit to escape into the outside world. On a dialup or cable connection you don't have this unless you make yourself a domain, eg via homeip.net etc. And if you have an opressive ISP (eg optus@home, my cable provider) you _can't_ run an publicly visible SMTP server because optus filter that port. Therefore it's often sensible to use your ISP's SMTP server. And thus a script of some kind instead of sendmail, since you're only doing dispatch, not routing. | > . you can then just replace the sendmail | > with something that delivers, for example, | > to the host named by your $SMTPSERVER variable. | shades of ssmtp? If I were only doing SMTP, I'd be doing that (well, really using my own smtpsend script which does that same job). But I'm doing a bit more. So I have my own script. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I sympathize with the makers of _The Net_. We're sad bastards really and they're trying their best to make us seem interesting. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Griffiths)
