Re: mail basics on a debian system
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:12:16PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Batched SMTP is a slightly more specialized technique, used when you're
> getting a group of messages from some source other than normal SMTP and
> injecting them into the mail system all at once. The basic idea is that
> you save (i.e. "batch") the transaction that would normally happen on
> port 25 to a file, and replay it later. I use this for list mail
I'm sorry, I can't get the idea - wouldn't it be easier if your friends
server mta hand all messages adressed to you to the mta on your mashine?
> so that
> the friend who runs the server where my mail normally goes doesn't have
> to deal with the 500 messages a day from all my Debian list
How are you able to deal with all these messages? I'm thinking about
a filter only letting the interesting subjects pass through.
Up to today I have neither been able to define what 'interseting' is,
nor do headers always discribe how interesting the body might be.
> At any rate, all three of these mechanisms (TCP connection to port 25,
> BSMTP, plain sendmail) go through your local mail transport agent, as
> does any other normal means of sending mail in Unix.
Root on my system has a variable MAIL in his env - is this something
used back in history of linux or even unix?
Robert
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