[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Errr, no. exim does SMTP.
>
> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to
> hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange.

Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that
has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail.

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