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

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 11 August 2011 19:55, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But what about sending mail? I've only ever configured Plan 9 to act
>> as its own smtp server, have never done anything with p9p or a remove
>> server.
>
> It's pretty much the same as on Plan 9.
>
> See $PLAN9/mail/lib/rewrite.

I must say that now I have spent about 5 hours trying to make sending
email from p9p work, but so far without success.
[Perhaps it is often much more instructive to write down 10 lines to
explain than just write that it is much the same as somewhere else...]

After reading quite a few man pages, I've tried to simplify my attempts.
Now I have a simple file 'q' with the email I want to send (I put 'cat
>q' instead of 'qmail...' into 'rewrite'):
>-------
;cat q
>From ruda Sun Aug 28 14:52:01 CES 2011 remote from bluestar
To: rsykora@cern.ch
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:52:01 +0200
From: ruda
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

aahahha

;
<-------

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 get:
mxlookup returns nothing
220 mx.google.com ESMTP u18sm633897fah.41
EHLO bluestar.ch
250-mx.google.com at your service, [128.141.146.177]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
Sun Aug 28 15:33:22 CES 2011 connect to 74.125.39.108:
250-mx.google.com at your service, [128.141.146.177]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
QUIT
221 2.0.0 closing connection u18sm633897fah.41

If anybody could suggest what I should do to be able to send...

(E.g. I don't understand why I need any '-h a.com' or what should
really be there. Further, I do not know if I have to have an entry in
factotum before the try or if factotum would ask when neccessary [as
it does in the imap case, i.e. when I just read the email].)

(I on purpose try to bypass all those upas/qer, upas/runq, ... stuff;
I believe a simple line like above should first succeed before any
such stuff is needed. Also, when I tried to use the queues, sth kept
on bringing qmail script to life each few seconds [and I was not able
to tell what], the file log/mail/smtp.fail was steadily growing and I
could not stop it [finally I renamed qmail to stop it].)

Thank you!
(I just so much want to get rid of the web browsers...)
Ruda