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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: sendmail patch2
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-27 1:14:06
Message-ID: 200809270314.06736.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Friday 26 September 2008 15:45, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> >
> > Please mark patches which are ready for svn somehow
> > when you have them ready. ("denys, please apply to svn...")
> 
> 
> Sure. I generally mark them "Please, consider applying".
> 
> Pity, Natanael has no time to test the changes.

> I admit that current BB sendmail can be decomposed into a chain of tools.
> Namely: connector (either vanilla nc or a ssl wrapper), mail composer (which
> cat be trivial cat <<_EOM_) and SMTP chatter (wonder if BB chat can be
> reused). But then who will be called sendmail, which is intended to be a
> drop-in replacement? AFAIK vanilla sendmails just read stdin and then make
> network connection to chat to the server. If I'd want to use @gmail.com I
> would not be able to just drop it in, as network connection must be made by
> openssl wrapper.

You can make it accept additional parameters, check for magic environment
variables and so on, in order to activate additional functinality.
--
vda
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