Re: Trivial SMTP client

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:16:23PM -0800, Dave Taira wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, David S. wrote:
>
> > (Re-inventing the wheel) You could  do the 'telnet' trick with
> > 'expect'.  But 'telnet' + 'expect' +  'tcl' + ... would not be
> > a "small" SMTP client.
>
> You  could also  use nc(1). As  long as  you generate  the right
> text, it should work. Something like:

It's a nice idea, but it  don't work. Try it and see. Neither does
telnet--SMTP really does want to have a dialog, not just a pair of
firehoses spewing at each other.

I'd still recommend Sendmail, but there's at least one port in the
tree that'll do the trick.

b&

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