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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:54:11 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p3tid3$ol7$2@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20180119194326.3pbu7acg7e5tvmqa@matica.foolinux.mooo.com

On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> wrote:
> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you
>> > need 2 pieces here.  Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for
>> > you?  It certainly has all the functionality.
>> 
>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that
>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards
>> delivery.
>
> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can
> do pretty much anything.  If its configuration language isn't Turing
> complete, it is quite damn close to it.  And the same can be said of
> sendmail, though I know much less about it know.

Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an
SMTP server?

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! It's the RINSE CYCLE!!
                                  at               They've ALL IGNORED the
                              gmail.com            RINSE CYCLE!!



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-19 18:03 [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay? Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 18:19 ` Ralph Seichter
2018-01-19 18:31   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 18:51     ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 18:59       ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 19:10         ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 18:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 18:38   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 18:57     ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 19:48       ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 20:14         ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 20:29           ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 20:36             ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 18:46 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-01-19 18:49   ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 19:43     ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-01-19 19:48       ` Alan McKinnon
2018-01-19 20:01         ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 20:05           ` Alan McKinnon
2018-01-19 20:04         ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 20:16           ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 19:54       ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2018-01-19 19:56         ` Alan McKinnon
2018-01-19 20:03           ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 20:06             ` Alan McKinnon
2018-01-19 20:19               ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 22:24                 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-01-19 22:31                   ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 23:04                   ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-19 23:21                     ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-19 23:58                       ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-20  0:30                         ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-20  0:39                           ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-20  0:53                           ` Grant Edwards
2018-01-20  0:44                         ` Ian Zimmerman

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