Re: [MacPerl] FormMail on Mac

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 09.53 -0400 1998.08.28, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>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.

The COOLEST way to do it (IMO) would be to have a local mail server with a
drop-folder, where you could save a new mail file to this drop folder, and
the server would periodically check for new messages and send them.

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