Re: [MiNT] Sendmail

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 02:00:00PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On 2000-4-22, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> wrote:
> 
> > OK, silly question:  how do I get mailx and smail to cooperate in
> > sending mail to the outside?  I have read every man page and doc,
> > but I still cannot get it to send anything.  Everything stays in
> > the mail spool...
> 
> Amazingly enough, deleting /usr/lib/smail/transports cured the
> problem.  Something wrong in the defaults, I guess.  

Smail cannot work out of the box, it always needs some configuration by
hand.  As far as I remember the transports file is the sample that comes
along with the smail sources.

> Anyhow, now that I got the basics working, back to those Sendmail
> FAQs, so I can teach smail not to hack the content-encoding into
> this damn quoted-printable...

No idea, sorry.  I use qmail here.

I personally prefer qmail because with serialmail it is very easy to
configure to spool mail via a temporary PPP link (it is also said to be
much safer and quicker but that is currently not much of an issue for me).  
Unfortunately qmail heavily relies on named fifos which are not available
under MiNT.  The original sendmail would of course be an option too but
IMHO sendmail is not the MTA of the future.  At least qmail (and maybe
exim) have really obsoleted sendmail nowadays.

If I see it right, then smail is not supported any longer.  The
developpers now count on exim.  Maybe somebody should have a try to get
exim running on MiNT.  I don't think that smail is worth investing a lot
of work in today.

Ciao

Guido
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