Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:52:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mumit Khan To: itz AT lbin DOT com cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: /bin/mail anyone? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 itz AT lbin DOT com wrote: > I am looking for a minimalistic user mail agent that will just > impersonate sendmail for Emacs and the like, ie. just read a message > on stdin and relay it to a real SMTP listener. I need this because I > want to use Emacs as my mailer in the same way as I do on Unix, and > AFAIK Emacs doesn't know how to speak SMTP itself. (Actually, there > are the smtpmail and feedmail packages, but how to integrate them into > mail mode?) > > If nobody has a pointer/hint, I probably want it badly enough that > I'll eventually write one. > > I also toyed with the idea of getting regular sendmail to build, but > the sendmail distribution contains a file aux.m4 :-( > Others have suggested sendmail already, so I won't plug it. I have access to AT&T sources, and I see a terrific little mailx implementation that handles remote smpt servers. Is there a free implementation? This is not the same mailx that's usually part of Linux distributions, sorry. If you're using Emacs, why not use the VM package. I don't use it, but I seem to remember that it supports POP2/3 etc. There must be dozens of other elisp packages out there. Emacs will gladly replace me in my kitchen if I let it (which I won't!), so it must already support remote mailers. One choice folks interested in a "batch" MUA may consider the new incarnations of fetchmail, which can forward/tunnel mail through smtp connection. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com