Help: sendmail under MS NT

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Mon Aug 23 00:19:09 EDT 1999


In article <XM8t3.62641$jl.39581340 at newscontent-01.sprint.ca>,
Bruce Dodson <bruce_dodson at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Check the topic indexes at C/C++ User's Journal and Dr. Dobb's Journal web
>sites.  Sometime between mid 1996 and early 1998, there was an article
>featuring a sendmail DLL for Win32, which hid the messy internals of MAPI
>and left you with something basically as simple as sendmail.  It would be a
>trivial matter to encapsulate this and the Unix sendmail in a portable
>least-common-denominator wrapper.
>

It's often even easier than this.  While the original
questioner asked about the "sendmail utility on NT"
(which *is* available, by the way, at a price), I
speculate it's likely he'd been happy simply pointing
a very simple network client toward the nearest open-
to-his-application SMTP relay.
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