On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:14 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Zack Weinberg > >Sent: 09 May 2005 19:38 > > > Bernard Leak writes: > > >> Can something be done to make the problem less obstructive? > >> It's not obvious that the script should try to be too clever and > >> work out which name to use. Mail looks as useful as any name > >> it can have hard-coded. However, a comment could be added > >> to the script *output* > > [... more useful suggestions ...] > > > > This is where I quietly mention that patches are welcome. > > > > zw > > > How about an option to format the output suitable for piping straight into > "telnet mail.gnu.org 25"? >
At this point, you might as well rewrite it in Perl and require Mail::Mailer, or rewrite it in python, and use smtplib (which is in the python standard lib)
