On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:02:15 EST, Ken Hornstein writes:
yes! please either keep it, or improve post by giving it a switch that allows it to submit mail to an mta/msp program directly.Errrr ... you know about the sendmail mts, right?i do indeed - but post always talks smtp, even with mts: sendmail. i need something that submits to a program on stdin without any to-and-fro interaction - which is precisely what spost does.Really? I'm curious ... why?
sorry for the late response, but here it is: i'm using kuvert, a wrapper for outbound mail that gpg-signs/encrypts it automatically based on where the mail is going. (see http://snafu.priv.at/mystuff/kuvert/ if interested) that's my "sendmail:" entry in mts.conf, and the kuvert tool emulates/wraps sendmail in stdin mode (ie. sendmail <recip> or sendmail -t). i do this job at that particular point in the pipeline because i use all of exmh, mh-e (and occasionally raw nmh) in parallel and don't want to teach each of them independently what my crypto preferences are - and i *definitely* don't want two+ parties caching my key passphrases. as to living with post-doing-batched-smtp: of course i can hack up kuvert to support this, but i really really like the straightforward simplicity of non-interactive, one-shot submission of mails where smtp isn't involved (locally).
Enough people have said that they use it that it's not going to get removed for 1.5; I'm just trying to understand what they need from spost that post doesn't provide.
that's fine, and in time i'm sure somebody will find the energy/time to contribute the code for an spost-like submission mode for post. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GnuPG Keys 0x42BD645D or 0x5B586291 + http://snafu.priv.at/ On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage
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