On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Joel Koltner wrote:
> --- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Walter Marvin wrote:
> > > that's the simple part (and there are simpler ways to do it) The harder
> > > part is to configure the mail system
> > ??? This just acts as an SMTP client to a given mail server.
> > Not much to configure.
>
> Assuming you just want a system that tries to fire off an e-mail and if
> it works, great... if not, oh well... just mention it in a log file and
> call it good... yeah. But Walter might be talking about the more
> "traditional" mail system where the e-mail sender queues a messages,
> there are multiple retries if it can't connect for some reason, if it
> eventually fails, it bounces back an error message to the sender, etc.
Yes true. But if you want to get stuff off the board over the net, then ANY
network destination can be unaccessible and so for any protocol/method
you'd need a strategy to cope with that. And a full blown mail service
daemon with queues etc just might be slightly over the top :-)
Jim
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