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Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:17:49 +0000 |
Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>I use mts:sendmail (this is the Debian package default and generally what
>>I recommend people use because (a) nmh's SMTP talking code doesn't get
>>the corner cases of the spec right and (b) Unix systems should have a
>>sendmail binary that can do this kind of thing anyhow).
>
>Weeelll ... let's just say that I don't quite agree with you on all of
>those points.
:-)
>While I haven't encountered any problems with nmh's SMTP code, if you know
>of problems with it I'll be glad to fix them.
Just to pick a random example, if you get a 4xx response back from the
server you're supposed to retry later, and I bet we don't do that :-)
Another one: I don't think we do MX lookups on the server name given in
mts.conf, which is also a MUST from RFC1123.
-- PMM
- [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Ken Hornstein, 2009/01/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Joel Uckelman, 2009/01/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Doug Porter, 2009/01/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Peter Maydell, 2009/01/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Ken Hornstein, 2009/01/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Peter Maydell, 2009/01/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Ken Hornstein, 2009/01/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Ken Hornstein, 2009/01/26
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Robert Elz, 2009/01/26
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Anders Eriksson, 2009/01/27
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Ken Hornstein, 2009/01/27
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2009/01/27
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Updates to nmh, Peter Maydell, 2009/01/25
- [Nmh-workers] Re: Updates to nmh, Bill Wohler, 2009/01/25
- [Nmh-workers] Re: Updates to nmh, Bill Wohler, 2009/01/25