Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> now when I try (74.125.39.108 should be smtp.gmail.com):
> cat q | upas/smtp -a -d -h a.com 74.125.39.108 rudolf.sykora@gmail.com
> rsykora@cern.ch

i'm confused.  are you using plan 9 or p9p?

i would think that a.com is wrong.  you need to use your real domain.
also i think you want the real target system, not an ip address.
mx lookup for google isn't broken for me.

	; fn mxquery {x=`{ndb/dnsquery google.com mx | sort +1n | sed 1q}; echo $x(4)>[1=2]; ndb/dnsquery $x(4)}
	; mxquery google.com >[2=]
	aspmx.l.google.com ip	74.125.47.27


on plan 9, upas typically uses /mail/lib/remotemail to send
to remote systems.  my remotemail looks like

	#!/bin/rc
	sender = $1; addr = $2; * = $*(3-)
	fd=`{/bin/upas/aliasmail -f $sender}
	switch($fd){
	case *.*
		;
	case *
		fd=quanstro.net
	}
	exec /bin/upas/smtp -h $fd $addr $sender $*

this is invoked by qmail/kickqueue which are tickled
by sending mail and/or a cron job.

	; cat /cron/upas/cron
	# kick mail retries (replace ladd with your system)
	0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *	ladd		/bin/upas/runq -a /mail/queue /mail/lib/remotemail

	# clean up after grey list
	47 4 * * *	ladd	rm -rf /mail/grey/tmp/*/*

ymmv, and there may be nupasisms in here.

- erik