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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 29 |
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ News * Further Delivery Status Notification ('-R' and '-V' options). - * Version 0.3: + * Version 0.3 (2003-03-10): * Capability to generate log files. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ News * Multiple identities (Jerome). - * Version 0.2: + * Version 0.2 (2002-10-31): * Packaging corrections. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ News * Use sendmail exit codes. - * Version 0.1: + * Version 0.1 (2002-09-26): * Initial release. @@ -18,35 +18,6 @@ Introduction 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |