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authorJosé Fonseca <jrfonseca@users.sourceforge.net>2003-07-05 12:43:03 +0000
committerJosé Fonseca <jrfonseca@users.sourceforge.net>2003-07-05 12:43:03 +0000
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information.
-Rationale
-~~~~~~~~~
-
- Since the moment I switched to Linux I had some problems to have email
- properly configurated to my personal needs. I use a POP3/SMTP mail account
- for my personal mail, and I usually connect to the internet with my laptop
- via several LANs (home, work, ...) with several different firewall
- configurations. The standard MTAs didn't provided the flexibility I needed --
- they either failed to deliver the mail directly or failed to authenticate
- with the relay, or were configured system-wide and conflicted with the local
- MTA.
-
- <<fetchmail>> always worked fine to get email, but I needed a <<sendmail>>
- alike program to send email from <<Mutt>>. Basically I wanted a program
- which could be for SMTP what <<fetchmail>> was for POP3, i.e., an user
- configurable MTA with authorization support.
-
- Some small modifications to the <<<mail-file>>> example from <<libESMTP>> did
- the trick. After receiving positive feedback from the <<libESMTP>> author,
- Brian Stafford, I decided to make the program more confortable for others to
- use -- adding a command-line option parser extracted from sendmail, a
- configuration file parser from <<fetchmail>>, a man page based on <<ssmtp>>
- and <<sendmail>> man pages and using autotools to wrap it all up. The result
- of this cut and paste effort is <<esmtp>>. Well, the first version, that is.
- Since then a few more bells and whistles were added, with the help of some
- contributors.
-
-
-
Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~