Mail. Mail! Mail?

[Daniel Berlin]

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)