hotwaydd, nslookup/sendmail, slypheed

[skiingprep]

Hi, i'm using hotwayd with Slypheed to retreive my hotmail mail and it works great.

Now, I would like to also send mail but hotwayd does not have a wrapper for sending mail.

Someone suggested sending "anonymous mail" with the return address set to my hotmail address.; this seems like a plossible idea.

I remember writing a nslookup/smtp perl script to do the job on a unix box but I am wondering if there is anyway to set up sendmail (port 25) to send this type of "fake" mail so I can continue to use sylpheed.

thanks in advance, -brian

[eek]

emerge sendmail or emerge qmail

both are smtp servers, qmail is the newest one and trying to replace sendmail. qmail claims to be more secure and have more features. but sendmail is the tried and true. both would work fine for this though.

after getting smtp up, just point sylpheed to use 127.0.0.1 for the outgoing mail address.

[skiingprep]

ah, but how do I setup sendmail to not use a smtp server.. i just want to send "anonymous email".

thanks.

[eek]

when someone says anonymous mail (and im sure this is what *that person* meant when they said it) is to connect with telnet to an open port 25 (the smtp port) and give commands manually to send mail with whatever information is wanted.
if you set sylpheed to use a local smtp service, it will give these commands automatically, with the information (to, from, message) that you passed to sylpheed.

[skiingprep]