Re: [MacPerl] FormMail on Mac

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 08:29:17AM -0600, w e b s l a v e wrote:
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} >
} >Does anyone have a working Mac port of FormMail?
} >Do you have any suggestions?
} 
} I did get mail sent from MacPerl using Net::SMTP but it seemed a little
} less than reliable sometimes...

Depending on how you do it, it may well be unreliable.  The best way
to do it is to always send the mail either to an SMTP server running
on your Mac or to one that's run by your ISP and very "nearby".
Dealing with MX, queuing and retrying when the remote server isn't
answering or is hard to reach, etc., is the job of an SMTP server, and
that's why people on Unix generally just pipe to /usr/lib/sendmail
(but that's a stupid idea these days, since it might not even exist).
No matter which way you choose on a Mac, Net::SMTP, Mail::Sendmail,
MailTools, etc., it's best to not try to send directly to the end
recipient.

} 
} 
} Pete
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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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