[X4U] APPLE's Mail Program

[David Ledger]

>From: Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com>
>At 09:44 +0000 1/2/08, David Ledger wrote:
>>Maybe you should setup Postfix and use command line 'mailx' when 
>>emailing this group.

>It's also perfectly possible to use telnet or ssh depending on your 
>server. Connect to port 25 and execute SMTP protocol commands 
>(they're just text commands) yourself.
>Perl, python and others have modules that will do that for you. I 
>can probably find a sample in perl if you ask. I once wrote one for 
>a fellow in the local Mac user group who had problems with broken 
>links in his list-like messages to members but he never used it. The 
>links now arrive as tinyurl items and I dislike it.

Of course, but why bother if you don't need to do more than mailx can do?

David


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