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Re: Proposal for Revised Memorial
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:44:37 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:51:45 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> > Sendmail is actually the SMTP daemon, the program that accepts email
> > messages being thrown at a certain machine (after which youi can
> > retrieve them from that machine with pop3d) .
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> That's certainly one of the things it can do. But it can also send and
> deliver mail messages to multiple local users on a single machine without
> using TCP/IP, and it work with procmail to filter mail, and it can expand
aliases... yes, I use that. or do you mean something else still?
> complex address lists, and just about any crazy old configurable mail-
> related thing. It's a true beast, and the ORA book for it is 1021 pages.
Of course, I set _my_ sendmail up not to forward stuff. I dunno why I
did that, but that's the default that came in the smtp .cf file and
procmail is too much memory to waste - as it is now, I can just barely
fit it all into the 12 megs without swapping, so another 6 megs or so
is too much :)
Jasper
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| (...) On Unix machines, yes, basically. Although sendmail won't automatically generate email from scratch, if you pass it a valid SMTP document, it will fill in various headers and make sure the mail gets to its destination one way or another (or (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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