On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > The SMTP server is avaliable (even if it's not localy), once Sendmail > is being used (I bet they are not using UUCP). SMTP and UUCP aren't the only mail transport protocols in the world, so it's entirely conceivable that a custom handler needs to be used. Using a properly-configured sendmail (or its equivalent) abstracts all this away very nicely, so that the CGI doesn't have to worry about it. Even if SMTP is being used, using sendmail (or its equivalent) lets the CGI forget about dealing with MX lookups (unless you assume there's always a relay MTA), address munging, SMTP auth, etc. > And, anyway, involking sendmail may be the standard, if by that you mean > "the most common". It's not the only MTA avalible. I myself don't use it. Many (most?) *nix MTAs have a sendmail-compatibility interface, precisely because a uniform interface that works across all systems and protocols is desirable. You don't have to use it, but your CGI becomes a lot more portable (perhaps even less complicated) if you do. -- Adrian Ho lexfiendat_private
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