* Re: [9fans] The Best way (easiest) of sending E-MAIL in Plan 9.
2014-11-15 19:03 [9fans] The Best way (easiest) of sending E-MAIL in Plan 9 Mats Olsson
@ 2014-11-16 11:15 ` Ingo Krabbe
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From: Ingo Krabbe @ 2014-11-16 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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basically sending mail in plan9 depends on a command chain that looks a bit 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), marshal(1), rewrite(6), send(8) and smtp(8). Check the command /mail/lib/qmail, 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 Mail 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/ files (smtp.fail, smtp, mail).
Actually as smtp is called the "Simple" mail transport protocol, it's really simple to use a mailhub's smtp service through telnet — check rfc821 to see how to and remeber to end your lines with crnl, when communicating with a smtp service directly.
That's what the command smtp(8) is for: The communication with another smtp 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.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Mats
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