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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 17 Jan 96 18:13:31 +0500
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- On or about 16-Jan-96 15:33:41 John Kelly typed the following words about "Re:
- Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?". My reply is thus...
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- JK> ca@dmz.medstroms.se (Christian Almgren) writes:
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- >> : Sure; first off, SMTPd *receives* mail, it doesnt SEND it.
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- >> Well I use it for sending mail.
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- >> On my system i queue the mail when I am offline, and let SMTPd
- >> SEND them when I am online. Receiving mail I use AmiPOP for.
- >> If you use SMTPd for that I would like to know how you do it.
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- JK> I'm sorry, Mr Science, but you use SMTPpost to send mail. SMTPd only
- JK> receives mail. trust me please, or conversely, read the steeenking docs.
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- Well, my name is not Mr Science, but if you reply to mail off line with the
- queue option of SMTPpost you need to run SMTPd while on line to send the
- queued mail. It periodically (default 2 min) checks your spool directory and
- sends what is there. I guess it calls SMTPpost but SMTPd initiates the send.
- Semantics I guess.
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