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On 2018-01-19, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 01/19/2018 12:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I'm also wondering why you need 2 bits. Earlier in the thread you |
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>> mentioned that you send perhaps a few messages a week and never more |
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>> than one connection at a time. |
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> Grant E. has indicated elsewhere in the thread that his |
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> /usr/bin/sendmail script is speaking something custom to the |
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> destination mail server. |
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> Read: /usr/bin/sendmail script is NOT speaking SMTP. |
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Yes. I should have been more clear about that. |
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> Do you know what protocol(s) that Grant E.'s /usr/bin/sendmail script is |
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> speaking? Do you know if ssmtp (et al) support it? |
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It involves doing things remotely using the ssh-2 protocol. |
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> I feel like Grant E. has not revealed enough information to know if |
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> other things can speak what ever custom communications is possible |
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> between the SMTP server and the destination mail server. He has |
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> only revealed enough to know that it is custom, and that his |
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> /usr/bin/sendmail interface script must be used. |
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Yes, I have assumed that normal MTAs like sendmail and postfix do not |
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implement the ssh protocol and can't be made to do what my |
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/usr/bin/sendmail script does. |
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> I don't think there is enough information to know that ssmtp / postfix / |
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> exim / sendmail / et al are capable of speaking the protocols that Grant |
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> E. needs or wants. |
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I am confident they do not, but I'm not going to go into details on |
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how the ssh-protocol-based delivery works. |
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at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL |
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