Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!xanth!kyle From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Is there really no TURN command in sendmail's SMTP? Message-ID: <1701@xanth.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 12:03:08 EDT Article-I.D.: xanth.1701 Posted: Sun Jul 26 12:03:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 22:39:13 EDT References: <1726@ubvax.UUCP> <6745@dartvax.UUCP> Lines: 14 > 2. I doubt that you'll find anyone who has actually hacked it in... it's > really a bigger deal than it seems. You have to teach sendmail how to read mail > out of a mailbox, dig the appropriate information out of the headers, and > send it along. You might be better off implementing uucp instead. (actually, > I believe that's been done for the PC...) > > -Kevin Sendmail wouldn't have to do all that! It would simply have to go through its queuefiles, looking at the envelope of each letter and determine which ones go to the host on the other end of the SMTP connection. The routines to do this are, of course, already part of sendmail. You just have to be familiar enough with sendmail internals to tie SMTP-receiver and the SMTP-sender code together.