Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:47:06 -0700 (PDT) From: To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: (message from Mumit Khan on Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:52:23 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: /bin/mail anyone? Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:52:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mumit Khan cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 itz AT lbin DOT com wrote: > I am looking for a minimalistic user mail agent that will just > impersonate sendmail for Emacs and the like, ie. just read a > message on stdin and relay it to a real SMTP listener. I need > this because I want to use Emacs as my mailer in the same way as > I do on Unix, and AFAIK Emacs doesn't know how to speak SMTP > itself. (Actually, there are the smtpmail and feedmail packages, > but how to integrate them into mail mode?) > If nobody has a pointer/hint, I probably want it badly enough > that I'll eventually write one. > I also toyed with the idea of getting regular sendmail to build, > but the sendmail distribution contains a file aux.m4 :-( > Others have suggested sendmail already, so I won't plug it. I have access to AT&T sources, and I see a terrific little mailx implementation that handles remote smpt servers. Is there a free implementation? This is not the same mailx that's usually part of Linux distributions, sorry. If you're using Emacs, why not use the VM package. I don't use it, but I seem to remember that it supports POP2/3 etc. There must be dozens of other elisp packages out there. Yes, but my problem is with OUTGOING mail. All Emacs mailers ultimately rely on sendmail or something that behaves like it to send messages, they don't talk SMTP themselves. One choice folks interested in a "batch" MUA may consider the new incarnations of fetchmail, which can forward/tunnel mail through smtp connection. Do they accept mail on stdin? I was an early fetchmail adopter under Linux and that would be a surprise to me, knowing that fetchmail consciously (almost rigidly) applies the "one job only" philosophy. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324 San Francisco, California 94107 U.S.A. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com