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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Batch SMTP (was Re: mush vs X.400)
Message-ID: <_dw+e2.kf1@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 6 Aug 90 19:23:05 GMT
References: <10682@cs.utexas.edu> <1990Jul31.070020.21139@specialix.co.uk> <7697@gollum.twg.com>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.mail.misc, article <7697@gollum.twg.com>,
  david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
< in the UUCP world guys..)
< 
< [...]  RFC-976 says to treat
< BSMTP mail as normal rmail stuff but headed to a user-ID of 'a!b!c!...!b-smtp'.
< (note the `-').  That's probably a good enough way to do it..
< 
smail 3.1 propagates the use of rsmtp as the uux command -- instead of 
"uux <bsmtp-data - next-site!rmail b-smtp", you'd do
"uux <bsmtp-data - next-site!rsmtp".

This avoids possible problems with the single dot ending the mail prematurely
(there may be more than one message in a bsmtp-data file), which some
implementations circumvent by prefixing every line in the data file with an M
or some such.

Also, piping the stuff through compress and executing rcsmtp (or crsmtp -- any
ideas which one is going to be standard?) would work.

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