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Article #4182Interactive SMTP over phone lines
From: David S. Hayes
Date: Tue, 05 May 1987 18:26
Date: Tue, 05 May 1987 18:26
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The recent traffic about batch smtp has set me to wondering.
Part of the problem with bsmtp is the 'b'. SMTP is designed to be
an interactive protocol.
At my site, we have some Symbolics lisp hardware. These
machines have software for what Symbolics calls the "dialnet" mail
system. This service works much like UUCP. The difference is
that the login shell is (the lisp equivalent of) "sendmail -bs".
We ought to be able to do this with the current BSD sendmail.
I see a mail transport agent. Sendmail should be told to talk
smtp to the TA. The TA dials, then just acts as a pass-through.
Of course, we don't get file transfer this way, but it still seems
like a reasonable approach.
Anyone want to comment?
--
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900
UUCP: *!seismo!sundc!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: merlin%hqda-ai.uucp@brl.arpa
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!sundc!hqda-ai!merlin From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Interactive SMTP over phone lines Message-ID: <351@hqda-ai.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-May-87 14:26:34 EDT Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.351 Posted: Tue May 5 14:26:34 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 7-May-87 05:11:39 EDT Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon Lines: 20 Keywords: smtp sendmail interactive modem