Re: [Exim] SMTP delivery to remote hosts

Quoth Richard Welty on Sat, Jan 18, 2003:
> there are various solutions involving ETRN and batch smtp,

I already commented about ETRN, and BSMTP is not a complete
solution, it requires a transport.

> [1] fetchmail is the most common program for this, getmail is a smaller,
> simpler python script that has numerous advantages over fetchmail and does
> 85% or 90% of what fetchmail does w/o the braindamage.

Fetchmail's brain damage is that it loses mail when it receives a
4xx or 5xx reply from the SMTP server, which is a Bad Thing[tm].

Vadik.

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