Re:x2 mail::sendmail is it an independent mail server?

I've never used it, so cave canem and all that, but Net::SMTP (written by Graham Barr) lets you send mail to the destination mail server without requring a local mail server.

`g r i n d e r`

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Re:x3 mail::sendmail is it an independent mail server? by echo (Pilgrim) on Oct 01, 2001 at 17:35 UTC
Net::SMTP just submits mail to an SMTP server. If you don't run your own, and don't/can't use your ISP's, you'll need to: Correctly format outgoing mail according to RFC822; Figure out which destination SMTP server to contact for each recipient, based on the MX record for the recipient's domain (you could use Net::DNS for this purpose); Queue mail that is deferred when a non fatal error occurs, such as a temporary DNS failure, or an unreachable SMTP server; Generate a bounce message when a fatal error occurs, such as an unknown recipient; All in all this is a lot of work, and difficult to get right. It's much easier to install a MTA on your own machine, open source packages are available for popular platforms.	[reply]

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Re:x3 mail::sendmail is it an independent mail server?
by echo (Pilgrim) on Oct 01, 2001 at 17:35 UTC

Net::SMTP

Correctly format outgoing mail according to RFC822;
Figure out which destination SMTP server to contact for each recipient, based on the MX record for the recipient's domain (you could use Net::DNS for this purpose);
Queue mail that is deferred when a non fatal error occurs, such as a temporary DNS failure, or an unreachable SMTP server;
Generate a bounce message when a fatal error occurs, such as an unknown recipient;

All in all this is a lot of work, and difficult to get right. It's much easier to install a MTA on your own machine, open source packages are available for popular platforms.

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