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RE: Mail. Mail! Mail?
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: 'Zack Weinberg' <zack at codesourcery dot com>, 'Bernard Leak' <bernard at brenda-arkle dot demon dot co dot uk>, 'Bob Proulx' <bob at proulx dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:06:35 -0400
- Subject: RE: Mail. Mail! Mail?
- References: <SERRANOuVjtQUGUzLhG000002bb@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:14 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Zack Weinberg
> >Sent: 09 May 2005 19:38
>
> > Bernard Leak writes:
>
> >> Can something be done to make the problem less obstructive?
> >> It's not obvious that the script should try to be too clever and
> >> work out which name to use. Mail looks as useful as any name
> >> it can have hard-coded. However, a comment could be added
> >> to the script *output*
> > [... more useful suggestions ...]
> >
> > This is where I quietly mention that patches are welcome.
> >
> > zw
>
>
> How about an option to format the output suitable for piping straight into
> "telnet mail.gnu.org 25"?
>
At this point, you might as well rewrite it in Perl and require
Mail::Mailer, or rewrite it in python, and use smtplib (which is in the
python standard lib)