Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 19/01/2018 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>>>> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you
>>>>>> need 2 pieces here.  Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for
>>>>>> you?  It certainly has all the functionality.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that
>>>>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards
>>>>> delivery.
>>>>
>>>> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can
>>>> do pretty much anything.  If its configuration language isn't Turing
>>>> complete, it is quite damn close to it.  And the same can be said of
>>>> sendmail, though I know much less about it know.
>>>
>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an
>>> SMTP server?
>>
>> Errr, no. exim does SMTP.
>>
>> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to
>> hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange.
>
> Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that
> has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail.
>

Got it now.

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Alan McKinnon
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