Shell script to punt email to a smarter host

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From: the Maniak
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:54

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I'm reposting this because, somehow, a NUL got inserted in my Date:
header, which caused INN sites to not distribute my article.

    I want to send off RFC 822 messages via a remote SMTP port
    and bypass the local, broken mailer that has to exist in its
    broken configuration for political reasons.

    Basically, I want to use this script as my MTA in code that
    calls for an MTA.  While I'm fairly sure I could compile smail
    or some other MTA to do this, this seems a bit excessive.

    I'd very much prefer a shell script over a perl script in
    this particular case.  I'd love to find something that will
    reliably let me know if something screwed up (i.e. it can't
    open or complete a dialogue with port 25 for some reason).
    I hope I'm not missing something blindingly obvious, here.
    Code would work as well, but I may be dealing with a
    damaged C implementation as well.

                                       ...Sensei

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 Internet:  sensei@dojo.mi.org
 UUCP:  ...!wsu-cs!dojo!sensei

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From: sensei@dojo.mi.org (the Maniak)
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Subject: Shell script to punt email to a smarter host 
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 11:54:58 GMT
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