Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:5634 comp.mail.misc:1715 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: making GNU Emacs talk SMTP Message-ID: <121@titania.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 17 Mar 89 22:52:00 GMT References: Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 27 In article pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) writes: |In article rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier) writes: | |> It would be nice if GNU Emacs, when used as a mail user agent, would send |> mail by talking SMTP to a mail server instead of just invoking a local |> `sendmail'. |> |> Has anyone succeeded in making Emacs talk SMTP? Coding in Elisp beats |> writing a sendmail.cf any day... | |I have to disagree. There are a number of problems with this. | |1) GNU Emacs runs on many machines that don't have SMTP |2) You would still have to write the sendmail.cf. |3) Most mailers deliver mail by invoking sendmail with flags It would still be useful if gnumacs could talk SMTP to the local sendmail daemon, rather than starting up a new copy of sendmail, even if it did no routing decisions. Once the sendmail.cf files is written it's done, and there's no point in writing another version in Elisp, but at least this would save the overhead of starting a new sendmail process for each mail item. Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv PHONE: +44 203 523037 JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick ARPA: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England