Re: Mail programs

lkh <lkh@sdf-eu.org> wrote:

With our approach of "experimental archaeology" in mind,
maybe it would be more useful, and possibly easier, to
write a simple MUA ourselves:
 
 - use uucp / rmail to forward to other systems
 - append to local mail spool whatever messages are
   incoming.
 
what more would it need to do?

I just tried to hand a test message with bang path address to
mail(1) (circumventing postfix entirely). Here's my transscript:

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$ cat incoming.mail >> /var/spool/mail/lkh # minimal MTA
$ mail
mail version v14.9.24.  Type `?' for help
/var/spool/mail/lkh: 1 message 1 new
N  1 elrond!lkh            Tue May 28 22:50    6/143   "bang path test        "
?
[-- Message  1 -- 6 lines, 143 bytes --]:
To: dwalin!lkh
Subject: bang path test
From: elrond!lkh

a test message with bang path address style
? r
To: elrond!lkh
Subject: Re: bang path test

mail(1) works with bang path addresses, no problem ...

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So I think this answers the original question ;-)

~lkh

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write your own MTA!