Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Re: How can I speed up Sendmail?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 01:45 pm, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> JP> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:59:24 -0400
> JP> From: "Paulick, Jim"
>
>
> JP> someone mentioned something about telnetting directly to
> JP> smtp.... well, they are still telnetting into a port that has
> JP> a program running on it (qmail, sendmail, your choice)
> JP> you/they are only bypassing an intermediate mail sending
> JP> client.
>
> That was I.  Yes, some program is on the other end, but the
> context was the _local_ machine.  The point is that one can
> transmit mail without using Sendmail or similar on the local
> end.

But you DO need a daemon running someplace.
listening on port 25
I have a 'C' prorgam that sends mail from a local server 
using a remote servers smtp.

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