Re: mail basics on a debian system
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:36:54PM +0100, Robert Land wrote:
> 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?
I don't have a static IP, so that's not practical, no. This setup works
well, and has the added bonus that Debian list mail goes only through
debian.org machines until I fetch it.
> > 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 ignore a lot of stuff. :)
> > 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?
I don't know offhand.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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