[REBOL] sendmail Re:(2)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can also write procmail scripts. The company told me there was no way for them to authenticate SMTP, so they had to shut it down. This kind of thing is It seems a bit silly to me, since they could simply set sendmail to accept connections from localhost only. Anyway, running external programs on UNIX from REBOL is not that difficult. You just have to pipe REBOL's output to bash and you're done. Like: rebol -q script.r | bash HTH, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/
[REBOL] sendmail Re:(2)
This is a very important issue, since one of REBOL's selling points is ease-of- use. I second the motion. REBOL should pipe output to sendmail.
[REBOL] sendmail Re:(2)
Why don't you write a IMAP protocol for REBOL? Douglas Vos - EDS/GM-BSU Webmaster e-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] RE: sendmail I second the motion. REBOL should pipe output to sendmail. My web host offers its 150,000 customers POP/IMAP mailboxes but not SMTP. Mail can be received, but not sent, at least not by SMTP. Sendmail is the only way. One can log into Unix and type sendmail commands in the terminal window. One can also write procmail scripts. The company told me there was no way for them to authenticate SMTP, so they had to shut it down. This kind of thing is happening all over the web. Sendmail is mandatory for any sort of newsletter or discussion list run over e-mail. And procmail "recipes" are exactly the sort of cryptic, error-prone Unix syntax that REBOL could replace. Some people suggest running SMTP servers from home. To me it's not a good idea. The whole point of using a hosting firm is to let them handle 24/7 uptime and server hardware costs and software configuration. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] REBOL CGI's and sendmail Is it possible to write a CGI script in REBOL which uses sendmail? [snip]
[REBOL] sendmail Re:(2)
Mark wrote: I second the motion. REBOL should pipe output to sendmail. This should be possible once REBOL/Command becomes available. This next bit is kind of off-topic, please forgive me. My web host offers its 150,000 customers POP/IMAP mailboxes but not SMTP. CLIP The company told me there was no way for them to authenticate SMTP, so they had to shut it down. This kind of thing is happening all over the web. 150k customers, and they can't figure out how to configure sendmail properly? Time for them to hire a real mail administrator, methinks. It's a very simple process to enable the access db, just add to the M4 config file: FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access')dnl and list in /etc/mail/access the IP address(es) of their web/hosting servers. (Will deny open relaying, but allow their own servers access.) Cheers, Kev Kevin McKinnon, Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunshine Communications http://www.sunshinecable.com PGP Public Key: http://www.dockmaster.net/pgp.html PGP 6.0 www.pgp.com
