Re: [MacPerl] MacSMTP.pl problem

[Mark_Probert@rosebay.matra.com.au (Mark Probert)]

My apologies to you if this is a repeat. I have been having some problems
with a number of mail lists lately and I don't remember seeing my cc: to
Brad appear. I believe that it has some relevance to a few people so I
thought I would repost.

-m.


>Brad West wrote:
>
>>I am trying to use the MacSMTP.pl libraries to help me process forms from
>>my Web server.  This is pretty vanilla stuff, getting POST-method arguments
>>from STDIN and processing them, sending a mail via SMTP, and generating a
>>response in HTML to be displayed to the user.  The problem I have is that I
>>need to output my HTML to STDOUT, but apparently MacSMTP is using STDOUT to
>>communicate with my SMTP server.
>>
>
>Hi Brad.
>
>First a caveat - I don't play with Web stuff, so I am not going to be much
>use on that front. As for MacSMTP, it doesn't use STDOUT to communicate
>with the server (the hard work is done in macchat, which turn uses
>Mathias' GUSI code to wrap the TCP connection), but it does use STDOUT to
>write diagnostics.
>
>MacSMTP is a little broken in this respect. I have cleaned up the code a
>released a new version as "SMTPlib". The code is cleaner, runs a little
>faster and has a number of bugs fixed. Owing to the lack of a suitable
>site, I have included the "latest" version as an attachment (.sit.hqx).
>
>[If some nice person could add it to the MacPerl collectio I'd be grateful.]
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-mark.
>
>



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