Dennis Lee Bieber
2/14/2008 8:38:00 AM
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:14:03 +0100, "Martin P. Hellwig" <xng@xs4all.nl>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> Guilherme Polo wrote:
> <cut>
> > I hope to not disappoint you, but mail will invoke a smtp server to
> > send your mail.
> >
> <cut>
> I disagree. If you really want to, all you need is telnet. You connect
> to port 25 of the mail server that handles the mail of the domain for
> that mail address and do the helo, mail from, rcpt to, data stuff.
>
> Mail indeed does invoke a smtp server, but strictly speaking only to
> receive it for the user.
The first response to the query was to invoke the command line
"mail" utility of a Unix type OS. THAT program is, what I believe, was
meant by "mail will invoke a smtp server"... Not "mail" as a general
concept, but the utility command...
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