From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43e067a37b3c7908565009aede492070@krabbe.dyndns.org> To: <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:15:15 +0100 From: Ingo Krabbe In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] The Best way (easiest) of sending E-MAIL in Plan 9. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 282e9578-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 basically sending mail in plan9 depends on a command chain that looks a b= it different, when you change perspective, but that's common to using any= mail system. Of course other mail utilities are much more integrated. To understand the mail process I recommend the manual pages mail(1), mars= hal(1), rewrite(6), send(8) and smtp(8). Check the command /mail/lib/qmai= l, that should handle external mails, based on the results of rewrite. When you talk about the users point of view, I would recommend the acme M= ail command, that is very useful and simple to use. But problems shouldn'= t rise from using acme, as its a very simple interface. It's more likely = that you have a problem with the mailhub configuration. If you want to debug the process of sending mail, check some /sys/log/ fi= les (smtp.fail, smtp, mail). Actually as smtp is called the "Simple" mail transport protocol, it's rea= lly simple to use a mailhub's smtp service through telnet =E2=80=94 check= rfc821 to see how to and remeber to end your lines with crnl, when commu= nicating with a smtp service directly. That's what the command smtp(8) is for: The communication with another sm= tp service. I found it most challenging in plan9 to configure the /lib/ndb/local, but= finally it reduced to define the local ipnet (the plan9 machine lives in= ) and set the smtp value to the mailhub's ip for that network. regards ingo > What could be considered to be the best (userfriendliness is of > importance) way of sending e-mail from Plan 9? I haven't cracked that > nut yet although I've gotten a lot of help. Would be very grateful for > your point of view in this matter (especially if it helps me to work > this issue out and leave it behind me). I have a lot to learn about > Plan 9 anyway. It's a very special OS and I just love it! Perfect for > the Raspberry Pi in my opinion. >=20 > Kind Regards, > Mats