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- From: innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:05:38 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <19960116.76B0348.9C86@ragtime.vnet.net> jkay@ragtime.vnet.net (John Kelly) writes:
- >
- > I'm sorry, Mr Science, but you use SMTPpost to send mail. SMTPd only
- > receives mail. trust me please, or conversely, read the steeenking docs.
-
- Technically, true, but confusing.
- With SMTPpost, you can use the -Q option or set the variable
- SMTPALWAYSQUEUE to have it put outgoing mail into your defined queue
- directory. I do this, so I can send mail while offline, and to boost the
- apparent speed of the mail sending process. While online, you run SMTPd, and
- in addition to its receiving duties, it presides over the queue directory, and
- sends any mail queued there longer than 2 minutes (by default).
- True, SMTPd does call SMTPpost to do the actual sending of the mail, but
- the effect is as if SMTPd sent the mail itself. Simply claiming that only
- SMTPpost sends mail confuses people, because of this little indistinct
- distinction.
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
-