RE: Pine and sendmail (further news)

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> Paul
> 
> > OK, I just pinged relay.zetnet.co.uk, which returns ok (194.247.40.9)
> > so try using that as the smtp server for sendmail smarthost. In Pine
> > you need smtp set to localhost of course, since you are doing smtp
> > locally.
> 
> No, that doesn't work at all :-(
> 

If you leave the smtp server entry unspecified in pine, it invokes
sendmail directly and pipes in the message. This means you do not need to
have sendmail running as a background deamon.



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