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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

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