Re: Adding mail() Parameter to Set Return Path
| From: | Hartmut Holzgraefe | Date: | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:25:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding mail() Parameter to Set Return Path | ||
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Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
At 11:29 31-10-2002, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: -- Why should I need to open a network socket with all problems that may arrise with it, when I can call a binary?why bother with additional subprocesses, incompatible command line interfaces, a command line interface that wasn't even really meant to be used for non-human interaction? the only advantage of using the sendmail binary on unix is that you usualy can rely on it being already configured besides that *all* the problems with mail() (one process per mail unless you bcc: identical copies, From: setting, no influence on SMTP envelope, ...) simply do not exist with SMTP based solutions (unless they are so badly coded as the win32 mail() implementation has been in the past ...) -- Six Offene Systeme GmbH http://www.six.de/ i.A. Hartmut Holzgraefe Email: hartmut@six.de Tel.: +49-711-99091-77