On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Walter Marvin wrote:
> You have to do something like that if you want it to be anything like
> robust. Even so, e-mails get lost
Yep, they can do. Just goes to show how crappy the "public" mail services
are and how they have corrupted peoples perception of how robust email can
be when run properly.
But then you can just use smtp as a protocol, the "server" doesn't even
have to be what would be recognised as a mail server. I've (ab)used http
to get data from one machine to another, without a "recognisable" web
server or browser in sight, in fact the "web server" was just a shell
script, as was the client.
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> ________________________________
> From: Joel Koltner <>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:54 PM
> Subject: [ts-7000] Re: how could I send a mail using a C program?
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>
> --- 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.
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