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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:30:46
Message-Id: 87r5m7j9qw.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 >> Internet mail is quite complex, yes.
4
5 > This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail.
6
7 > Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple:
8
9 > mail comes in,
10 > look up where it should go,
11 > send it there
12
13 [...]
14
15 Egad, I had no idea it was so simple; maybe you should tell all those
16 guys who collaborate in writing piles of rfcs that pertain to
17 internet mail and related issues, I bet they don't know it so easy
18 either. :)