On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marc Haber wrote:
> I would like to support ETRN like FAQ0521 suggests. I have taken a
> look at ssmtp and I feel that using that program would be some kind of
> pain because of the following reasons:
>
> - It can't natively read bsmtp, maildir or mailstore directories and
> must rely on some other program like formail to pipe the messages
> into.
> - The host to forward the messages to must be specified in the config
> file, and ssmtp doesn't have a command line option to specifiy the
> config file. Thus, ssmtp must be hacked to be used in this
> environment.
It surely can't be very hard to write a Perl script that takes a host
name as an argument, and reads BSMTP. It doesn't have to do very much
interpretation of the BSMTP, and a simple implementation could just give
up after any error response from the recipient host.
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