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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:02:28
Message-Id: 61e0fc02-8eb5-6988-3bc6-fb17f771e463@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay? by Grant Edwards
1 On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you
6 >>>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for
7 >>>> you? It certainly has all the functionality.
8 >>>
9 >>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that
10 >>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards
11 >>> delivery.
12 >>
13 >> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can
14 >> do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing
15 >> complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of
16 >> sendmail, though I know much less about it know.
17 >
18 > Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an
19 > SMTP server?
20 >
21
22 Errr, no. exim does SMTP.
23
24 If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to
25 hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange.
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29 --
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>