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  15     <B>Jonathan George</B>
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  19     <I>Mon Jul 17 08:19:59 PDT 2000</I>
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  34 <PRE>   I've implemented this before in two IRC-based projects I've done.
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  36         Your best bet is to use popen(3) to open sendmail, and then just
  37 write the email to the given pipe.  This has it's advantages because:
  38
  39         a) You don't have to read() from the pipe.
  40         b) You don't have to try to send email again if the first one
  41 bounces.
  42         c) Generally most popular MTA's (Qmail is a definite one) include
  43 a drop-in sendmail replacement, OR they just leave sendmail alone.
  44 Sendmail is both a client and server, and there is no reason it can't be
  45 left alone just to be used to pipe mail into.
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  47 Regards,
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  49 Jonathan George, CEO
  50 MultiList Central
  51 www.MultiListCentral.com
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  53 |&gt;<i> .. where &gt;&gt;&gt; precedes a line sent by the server, and &lt;&lt;&lt; precedes one sent by
  54 </I>|&gt;<i> the client.  Note the blank line separating the Subject: header from the
  55 </I>|&gt;<i> message body.  Completely RFC compliant and easy to implement.  Also notice my
  56 </I>|&gt;<i> MTA (in the 'greeting' line) is not Sendmail, but another popular alternative
  57 </I>|&gt;<i> called Exim.  No problem if the mail-sending routines are implemented in &quot;SMTP
  58 </I>|&gt;<i> client&quot; form but a potential PITA [pain in the a**] if you wanted to use
  59 </I>|&gt;<i> command-line sending.  Obviously some error-handling must be built in
  60 </I>|&gt;<i> (500-series numbers in particular mean a rejected delivery) but this is pretty
  61 </I>|&gt;<i> trivial.
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  63 </I>|<i>I can see that then, thank you for clearing that up :)
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