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Re: SMTP

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <01bbd310$dc0e9020$846bdec2@jonhomer>, Housing Dept
<jhomer@bcchsg.demon.co.uk> writes

>I am very interested in writing a SMTP server.

receiving mail is a very useful thing to do.

>  The protocol itself is very
>simple

... you did read 1123 as well as 821 and 822 I hope.

>, but I can not work out, how when in TURNPIKE software you set the
>email names up, how the information is then transfered to the
>Post.demon.co.uk mail server.

servers don't need to do this. Perhaps you are creating an email client?
in which case you will need to extract the addressees from the mail and
send them to the smarthost as RCPT TO: lines

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