[BL] msmtp for BL2 - authenticating mail transport agent
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baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
Tue Apr 3 10:02:33 EDT 2007
Karolis figured out how to use msmtp from the command line.
Set up a config file with the usual stuff (account default, login,
password, name of your ISP, reply-to address, auth on)
msmtp recipient at address.com
Type in the headers (From: Subject: and optionally Cc: Bcc: Reply-To etc.
one per line) and then the message body and then on a blank line Ctrl-D.
It sends. It works even without headers but you get a blank subject line
and no From: No obvious way of sending attachments unless you encode them
and then copy over to STDIN (with screen, splitvt, or gpm). uuencode or
base64 (which I compiled and posted previously).
I find this simpler to use than mailz with pmail, for just sending a short
message. Of course there is no address book.
Someone still needs to compile it for BL3 dynamic against libc5. The
non-encrypting glibc2 version is 60K. Will fit on BL3.50 floppy disk #2.
For use with ISPs such as earthlink which require authenticating outgoing
mail.
Karolis thinks pmail already authenticates pop mail.
Sindi
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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