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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:10:18 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of jerzy szczudlowski
> Sent: 11 May 2004 00:36

> Yes, it relies on MTA (and I thought that ssmtp is good default for
> Cygwin) since original mailx does the same. Althought one could simply
> use netcat, but that brakes SMTP protocol and this behaviour 
> is recently  becoming forbidden.

  I'm curious: in what way does using netcat break the smtp protocol?  


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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