Re: TCPIP$SMTP_SEND_FROM_FILE, what's its future???

From: Alan Frisbie (Usenet01REMOVE_at_Flying-Disk.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:19:54 -0700

Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:

> Hoff has already given a good answer for using the send-from-file services.
> But it also doesn't take any elevated privileges to connect to an SMTP server
> (try telnetting to port 25 and see), and once you do that you can put in any
> From: address you like.

This is what I have done as a work-around for now, but it
isn't as "robust" as I would like it. In the process of
debugging it, I found that HP's implementation of SMTP has
some error (and non-error) codes that differ from Sendmail.

I'll try Hoff's suggestion and see how that works.

> There's nothing magic about Perl, and you could use the same tricks in other
> languages (except for an absence of socket support in DCL); this is just a
> handy routine that already works.

I did it in DEC BASIC since the application was already written
in it. It was an, er, education. :-)

Alan

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